Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> This case looks reasonable as specified, however I do have one question. >> >> Given hal is (or at least has been) used on Linux/BSD systems do they >> already have this or a similar ioctl ? Is there any value in being >> compatible or is this an area where HAL is supposed to be operating >> system specific anyway ? >> > The change I'm making is in the solaris-specific implementation > component of HAL. If Linux supports dkio(7I) at all, its news to me. > Certainly, I don't believe that it supports DKIOCSTATE, which is the > main dkio(7I) functionality in this part of hal. > > I did a search of Linux source (not entirely exhaustive, but it included > the "block" subdirectory and the include/ subdirectory) at least, and > could not find any such ioctls.
Given that I'm happy you have done the due dilligence of comparing the problem space with another system and I'm happy to give my +1 for the case as specified. -- Darren J Moffat
