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 10:33:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 9 May 2002 10:33:43 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:55826 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 9 May 2002 10:33:42 -0400 Message-ID: <3CDA7A03.3000202@evision-ventures.com> Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 15:30:43 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020419 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl CC: hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] hdreg.h In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Użytkownik Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl napisał: > 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. And developement kernels are known to require updated: util-linux, modutils mounts net-utils and so on :-). As long as long an installed system doesn't break utterly there is no reaons IMHO why cleanups shouldn't be done.