On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> HDIO_GETGEO is implemented in most block drivers, and all of them have
> to duplicate the code to copy the structure to userspace, aswell as
> getting the start sector. This patch moves that to common code [1]
> and adds a ->getgeo method to fill out the raw kernel hd_geometry
> structure. For many drivers this means ->ioctl can go away now.
>
> [1] the s390 block drivers are odd in this respect. xpram sets ->start
> to 4 always which seems more than odd, and the dasd driver shifts
> the start offset around, probably because of it's non-standard
> sector size.
Shouldn't there be a field for the sector size, or is the 512 bytes size
too hardcoded to fix so this field wouldn't matter?
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