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

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