Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Greg KH wrote:
> > So e.g. lilo should depend on sysfs and *a*special*configuration* of udev,
> > while the admin MUST NOT use mknod'ed device files nor manually create
> > symlinks pointing to them, and not use relative path names?
> > That's plain stupid.
>
> If sysfs is stupid, then use an ioctl, have I objected to that?

I think he's objecting to the dependency on udev configuration, not to 
sysfs.

	-hpa
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