Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:15:56 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: cciss update for 2.6 |
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 04:46:41PM -0600, mike.miller@hp.com wrote: > Please consider this patch for inclusion in the 2.6 kernel. > > If no device is attached we now return -ENXIO instead of some bogus numbers. > Prevents applications from trying to access non-existent disks. > Also adds HDIO_GETGEO_BIG IOCTL that fdisk uses.
HDIO_GETGEO_BIG was only used by some horribly patched vendor fdisks. It's not declared in the kernel, and thus no driver should implement it.
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