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Mark Lord wrote: > > One candidate might seem to be the existing /sys/block/dev/partition/start > which I expect is already 64-bit friendly. > > But this requires about 150 lines of somewhat complex C code to access, > using only the dev_t (from stat(2) on a file) as a starting point, > or less if one relies upon the udev device name matching the sysfs > device name. > > Is it time now for HDIO_GETGEO64 to make an appearance? > Similar to how the existing BLKGETSIZE64 is supplanting BLKGETSIZE ? > Probably a better thing to have would be a way to look up block devices in sysfs by device number. -hpa -- 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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