Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Jan 2000 21:33:01 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1 |
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > the geometry the windows driver picked ? Are there better approaches I've > > > missed > > > > You don't need full parsing of partition tables for that, do you? > > I need to verify its a PC table and yank the geometry
== you need the first sector. And I don't think that we really have to go through ll_rw_blk here - we are in the driver, after all, so we shouldn't need anything fancy to feed request to the disk, no?
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