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SubjectRE: cciss update for 2.6
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I've resubmitted the patch without HDIO_GETGEO_BIG. Sorry for my confusion.

mikem

-----Original Message-----
From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@infradead.org]
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 1:16 AM
To: Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
Cc: akpm@osdl.org; axboe@suse.de; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cciss update for 2.6


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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