Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > This patchset implements alt_size, which is a size hint to the users > of a block device. It's primarily to communicate the BIOS (HPA) size > on ATA devices to userland, so that dmraid can consider it when trying > to figure out BIOS raid layout. This is critical as dmraid can be > tricked into assemblying the wrong raid when fed with the unlocked > size and if the disk content is right (or, rather, wrong) and good > number of distros are shipping with ignore_hpa=1 as default. PING. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
