From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:02:50 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] Add block_device_operations.getgeo block device method X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc1~769 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a885c8c4316e1c1d2d2c8755da3f3d14f852528d;p=pandora-kernel.git [PATCH] Add block_device_operations.getgeo block device method HDIO_GETGEO is implemented in most block drivers, and all of them have to duplicate the code to copy the structure to userspace, as well as getting the start sector. This patch moves that to common code [1] and adds a ->getgeo method to fill out the raw kernel hd_geometry structure. For many drivers this means ->ioctl can go away now. [1] the s390 block drivers are odd in this respect. xpram sets ->start to 4 always which seems more than odd, and the dasd driver shifts the start offset around, probably because of it's non-standard sector size. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Paolo Giarrusso Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Markus Lidel Cc: Russell King Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: James Bottomley Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed