Re: /proc/ide/hd?/settings obsolete in 2.6.

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2005-05-05 at 17:33, Wakko Warner wrote:
> Now, i have programs that I can't tell it the geometry (which it does use
> and requires to be correct.  My guesses using edd are correct).  I was using
> /proc/ide/hdX/settings to tell the kernel what geometry I want so the
> programs that can only ask the kernel can get it right.

And the geometry ioctls are obsolete for the applications too.

> If the "right" way is via IOCTL, my scripts are written in perl that do the
> bulk of the guess work.

I suspect it is for other programs that are still using that geometry
data and
really mkdosfs is what needs fixing ?

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