Re: [PATCH] fix HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for linux

[Otavio Salvador]

"Harley D. Eades III" <address@hidden> writes:

>> So the question is, if /sys/firmware/edd doesn't exist, do we attempt to
>> `modprobe edd` from within libparted?  Or is that something that
>> libparted should not be doing?
> I don't think libparted should be using modprobe to check/init a module.
> We could make edd a prereq for libparted or we could find another way
> which doesn't involve the use of a linux kernel module.

I'm not sure of this could help but I prefer to send it anyway.

In grub, Fedora folks did a patch to include geometry calc there. Do a
look in:

http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-grub/grub/trunk/debian/patches/geometry-26kernel.diff?op=file&rev=0&sc=0http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-grub/grub/trunk/debian/patches/geometry-26kernel.diff?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

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