> your arguments appear correct to me
> I include the patch to be applied from my point of view
Good. Had no time today to look at the details, but at first sight
this is a big improvement. May want to nitpick a little some other time.
Andries
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Andries,
okay, your arguments appear correct to me. Additionally there has some
other work
to be done... I include the patch to be applied from my point of view:
(See attached file: ibmpart.diff)
It includes the adaptions to the dasd_*.c files in drivers/s390/block and
also should
fix the fill_g
Andries, others,
Thanks for hacking through the code of fs/partitions/ibm.c.
Your patch does not work at all because you are relying on the
data in the part component of the hd structure, which does not
hold the geometry data of the disk but the data of the partitions
on that disk. Besides that,
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Andries, others,
Thanks for hacking through the code of fs/partitions/ibm.c.
Your patch does not work at all because you are relying on the
data in the part component of the hd structure, which does not
hold the geometry data
Reading patch-2.4.2 I met a strange amount of crap in
partitions/ibm.c. It is as if the author does not know
where the kernel keeps the starting offset of a partition,
and simulates a HDIO_GETGEO ioctl from user space.
I think the following patch does the same and removes a lot
of cruft. (Warning:
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