Re: [PATCH] Forcing capacity sizes for block devices

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On Sunday 20 December 2009 01:05:35 pm Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:
> Make the size attribute of block devices writable via sysfs. This
> allows userspace to force
> device boundaries in cases where the device driver is unable to detect
> the correct size, as
> with spec-incompliant SD card readers. Also see
> http://marc.info/?t=125555550200010&r=1&w=2

Just a wild idea but maybe the current block infrastructure for handling
ATA HPA (see commit db429e9 and e957b60 one) can be used to automatically
detect and workaround the issue?  
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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