Re: [PATCH] fix HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for linux

[Andres Salomon]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 17:53 +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 13:03 +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > > On Wen, 16 Nov 2005, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > 
[...]
> 
> > > If for some reason its wrong values end up to be used then that could
> > > explain why people are still corrupting their partition tables.
> > 
> > There's a comment in the code that suggests moving to EDD.  However, in
> > linux, that requires loading edd.ko (which is a module in debian
> > kernels, and is completely disabled in ubuntu kernels).  
> 
> Sooner or later they will catch up, other distros include it already for 
> a long time. 

I just talked to BenC, he just enabled it for the next ubuntu release.

So the question is, if /sys/firmware/edd doesn't exist, do we attempt to
`modprobe edd` from within libparted?  Or is that something that
libparted should not be doing?



> 
>       Szaka
> 
> > Anyone know of another way to access EDD services?  Once edd.ko is
> > actually loaded, we end up w/ /sys/firmware/edd in 2.6.
>