Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector | From | "Martin K. Petersen" <> | Date | 14 Feb 2001 09:23:49 -0500 |
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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael E Brown <michael_e_brown@dell.com> writes:
Michael,
Michael> It looks like the numbers we picked for our respective IOCTLs Michael> conflict. I think I can change mine to the next higher since Michael> your patch seems to have been around longer.
If you could pick another number that would be great. All the people out there using XFS rely on the BLKSETSIZE ioctl, and mkfs.xfs would break horribly with your patch.
Michael> What is the general way to deal with these conflicts?
Whoever applies the patch to the official tree deals with them :)
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