Hello I've written a patch that makes disk geometry information available via sysfs. Additionally I extended this basic function with write support by introducing a new block-device operation setgeo and implemented setgeo for the ide and scsi subsystem. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz suggested splitting this into two patches (one for read one for write), but i'm not sure how to exactly because the SubmittingPatches guide is a bit unclear there... On the one hand the read extends only the block-subsystem. For writing there is an extension to that and a change in one of the kernel's global headers (fs.h). And then there are the extensions to the ide (ide-disk.c) and scsi (sd.c) subsystems. Should I make three patches or two or not split at all? And if I split, the patches become dependent. Meaning that I'll have to send Patch 1 (read-only) to the ide/scsi subsystem-maintainers as well. Is this correct? Thanks for the help Philippe Seewer -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
