From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove geometry support from ps3 storage driver
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:15:14 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0705291114340.7698@pademelon.sonytel.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070521143938.GA20321@lst.de>
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:53:11PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > The old ps3_storage driver did not support DOS geometry, so there is no
> > point to start adding code for it.
>
> That's not quite true. sd applies some heuristics and has a default
> geometry if there is no ->bios_param method. Then again this whole
> gemetry thing really only makes sense on x86.
Would it make sense to have a default implementation in block/ioctl.c?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-29 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-21 12:53 [PATCH] remove geometry support from ps3 storage driver Olaf Hering
2007-05-21 12:54 ` [PATCH] set module owner in ps3 modules Olaf Hering
2007-05-21 15:52 ` Geoff Levand
2007-05-21 14:36 ` [PATCH] remove geometry support from ps3 storage driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-21 14:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-21 17:14 ` Olaf Hering
2007-05-29 9:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2007-05-30 10:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
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