[PATCH] remove geometry support from ps3 storage driver

Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com
Tue May 29 19:15:14 EST 2007


On Mon, 21 May 2007, 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.

Would it make sense to have a default implementation in block/ioctl.c?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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