> Please note that no fancy sysfs support was needed to prevent the problem: > both stacks (ide & libata) support HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl which can be used > to execute commands needed to retrieve/change HPA setting. Wrong. You need sysfs support because you may not be able to retrieve the HPA settings after the drive has removed them. You also need a trigger of some form because the block layer needs to see the volume resized and it doesn't snoop the innards of the ATA command structure. > Moreover the (much needed) work from Tejun doesn't help a tiny bit in case > of people migrating their *working* setups from IDE to libata (at least > in distro upgrade case this could have been handled by distro installer but > see above) and hitting the compatibility issue mentioned in bug #13365. Fedora handled it with clear documentation at the time. I'm not sure how other distros handled it back then but given the patch was written by Ubuntu folk I suspect they knew about it too 8) -- 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
