Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> writes: > Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> writes: > >> Am 29.06.2012 17:34, schrieb Markus Armbruster: >>> New limits straight from ATA4 6.2 Register delivered data transfer >>> command sector addressing. >>> >>> I figure the old sector limit 63 was blindly copied from the BIOS >>> int 13 limit. Doesn't apply to the hardware. No idea where the old >>> cylinder limit comes from. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> >> >> Now I think we have the very same thing in IDE, SCSI and virtio-blk. >> Would it make sense to have a helper function in hd-geometry.c that >> takes and validates the geometry from a BlockConf, applies defaults and >> puts the result into device state fields passed by reference? > > I can look into this, but I'm afraid we'd need two helpers, because of > IDE complications.
I'd like to try this in a follow-up series, together with a few more cleanups made possible by this series. Okay? [...]
