From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030790AbXCHWRT (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:17:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030794AbXCHWRT (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:17:19 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:41695 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030790AbXCHWRS (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:17:18 -0500 Message-ID: <45F08CAD.4090800@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:22:37 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070102) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anton Blanchard CC: Christoph Hellwig , Arjan van de Ven , Roman Zippel , David Brown , Linux Kernel Mailing List , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency References: <9c21eeae0703051555x1884fd7cse7968a71ec04eb27@mail.gmail.com> <20070306092917.GA5226@infradead.org> <200703080318.04631.zippel@linux-m68k.org> <20070308090031.GB7373@infradead.org> <1173369229.3550.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20070308160852.GB9916@infradead.org> <45F0426C.8000009@zytor.com> <20070308175729.GA7054@kryten> <45F05040.4090602@zytor.com> <20070308214236.GA4154@kryten> In-Reply-To: <20070308214236.GA4154@kryten> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Anton Blanchard wrote: > > 2. The badblocks stuff is PAGE_SIZEd too. Do we ever use it on modern > disks? Maybe we can just remove this support. > Badblocks is definitely still used in some configurations. -hpa