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DateWed, 26 Mar 2008 21:57:55 -0700
From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?
Greg KH wrote:
>> So e.g. lilo should depend on sysfs and *a*special*configuration* of udev,
>> while the admin MUST NOT use mknod'ed device files nor manually create
>> symlinks pointing to them, and not use relative path names?
>> That's plain stupid.
> 
> If sysfs is stupid, then use an ioctl, have I objected to that?

I think he's objecting to the dependency on udev configuration, not to 
sysfs.

	-hpa
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