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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: /proc/ide/hd?/settings obsolete in 2.6.
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 18:58:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115315925.19842.92.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050505163316.GB17861@animx.eu.org>

On Iau, 2005-05-05 at 17:33, Wakko Warner wrote:
> Now, i have programs that I can't tell it the geometry (which it does use
> and requires to be correct.  My guesses using edd are correct).  I was using
> /proc/ide/hdX/settings to tell the kernel what geometry I want so the
> programs that can only ask the kernel can get it right.

And the geometry ioctls are obsolete for the applications too.

> If the "right" way is via IOCTL, my scripts are written in perl that do the
> bulk of the guess work.

I suspect it is for other programs that are still using that geometry
data and
really mkdosfs is what needs fixing ?


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-05 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-05  0:48 /proc/ide/hd?/settings obsolete in 2.6 Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 10:10 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-05-05 11:13   ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 12:13     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-05-05 14:56       ` Alan Cox
2005-05-05 15:38         ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 16:21           ` Alan Cox
2005-05-05 16:33             ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 17:58               ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-05-05 20:53                 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 22:16                   ` Alan Cox
2005-05-05 15:33       ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 15:53         ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-05-05 16:20           ` Wakko Warner

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