svn commit: r195436 - in head/sys: dev/ata geom geom/part sys

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Jul 8 08:16:31 UTC 2009


In message <200907080556.n685uFsn040044 at svn.freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar writ
es:

>Log:
>  Revert revisions 188839 and 188868. Use of the ioctl in geom_dev.c
>  is invalid because the ioctl happens without prior open. The ioctl
>  got introduced to provide backward compatibility for extended
>  partitions, but it ended up not being used because it didn't work
>  as expected. Since there are no consumers of the ioctl and the
>  implementation is broken, the best fix is to remove the code
>  entirely.
>  
>  Spotted by:	phk

For the record
	Really spotted by:	scottl

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