From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 9 May 2002 10:06:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 9 May 2002 10:06:35 -0400 Received: from hera.cwi.nl ([192.16.191.8]:14283 "EHLO hera.cwi.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 9 May 2002 10:06:35 -0400 From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 16:06:32 +0200 (MEST) Message-Id: To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] hdreg.h Cc: dalecki@evision-ventures.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:48:32PM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > No, fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk do not use HDIO_GETGEO_BIG. > And indeed, the ioctl is completely meaningless. In many current distributions (e.g. from Red Hat, Mandrake and Caldera) they do. Yes, distributions are known to introduce buggy patches. Moreover, distributions are known to copy each others bugs. Sometimes I tell one distribution that a patch is buggy, and they revert their patch, but some months later they have it again, copied from some other distribution. Even bad "segmentation fault" bugs are copied. But for 2.5 this is not important. Distributions have time to fix stuff before 2.6. Andries