From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 06:12:18 +0100
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:19:02PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > This is my block ioctl series split up into managable chunks. I'm not
> > really sure about the last two of these, I'd prefer to get a second
> > opinion on those.
> >
> > Please apply once your tests have gone though.
>
> BTW, one note: 0x1260 thing (
> /* The mkswap binary hard codes it to Intel value :-((( */
> case 0x1260:
> case BLKGETSIZE:
> ) is an ancient piece of BS. It had appeared in 2.1.115-pre3 and AFAICS
> it's a misunderstanding.
...
> IOW, that stuff is useless and always had been. In the current form it's
> simply invalid C on e.g. amd64 - you get duplicate case there, which breaks
> the build.
>
> I'd simply kill that.
Agreed.
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