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Martin Dalecki wrote: > Mon May 6 13:29:44 CEST 2002 ide-clean-56 > [snip] > OK. After realizing the simple fact that quite a lot of low level > hardware manipulating ioctls may require assistance in usage from > proper logic which is *very* unlikely to be implemented in a bash > (for me preferable still ksh) I have made my mind up. > > /proc/ide will be nuked. Please consider this carefully, especially the read only bits. One particular thing I use a lot is: /proc/ide/hda/capacity Will there be another interface easily usable by scripts to get this information? Am I going to have to parse hdparm output? .... geometry = 2434/255/63, sectors = 39102336, start = 0 Am I going to need hdparm on my embedded system? Padraig. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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