Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 May 2002 15:30:43 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hdreg.h |
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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.
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