[PATCH] remove geometry support from ps3 storage driver

Olaf Hering olaf at aepfle.de
Tue May 22 03:14:16 EST 2007


On Mon, May 21, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:53:11PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > 
> > The old ps3_storage driver did not support DOS geometry, so there is no
> > point to start adding code for it.
> 
> That's not quite true.  sd applies some heuristics  and has a default
> geometry if there is no ->bios_param method.  Then again this whole
> gemetry thing really only makes sense on x86.

Ok, if it really matters, the values should match sd.



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