From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: michael_e_brown@dell.com
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
tytso@mit.edu, bcrl@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkgetsize64 ioctl
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:18:06 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15cXKI-0001eF-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108301403280.1213-200000@blap.linuxdev.us.dell.com> from "Michael E Brown" at Aug 30, 2001 02:10:42 PM
> Alan,
> Here is a patch that reserves the 108 and 109 ioctl numbers for
> get/set last sector. This patch has already been merged into the ia64
> tree, and is currently necessary in order to support the EFI GPT
> partitioning scheme on ia64. It is also in the Red Hat kernel tree. I had
> assumed that somebody at Red Hat would have forwarded it to you.
Rejected. I still think this is an ugly evil hack and want no part in it.
Its definitely not a 2.4 core tree thing.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-30 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-30 16:11 [PATCH] blkgetsize64 ioctl Michael E Brown
2001-08-30 16:25 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-30 16:44 ` Michael E Brown
2001-08-30 16:47 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-30 17:02 ` Michael E Brown
2001-08-30 17:12 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-30 17:34 ` Michael E Brown
2001-08-30 18:51 ` Theodore Tso
2001-08-30 19:03 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-30 19:10 ` Michael E Brown
2001-08-30 19:18 ` Alan Cox [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-31 1:15 Andries.Brouwer
2001-08-31 1:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-30 11:57 Andries.Brouwer
2001-08-29 22:45 Ben LaHaise
2001-08-30 0:03 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-30 0:16 ` Ben LaHaise
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