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RE: [Xen-devel] Creating partitions on domain U


  • To: "Henning Glawe" <eartoaster@xxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:58:46 -0000
  • Delivery-date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:14:23 +0000
  • List-id: List for Xen developers <xen-devel.lists.sourceforge.net>
  • Thread-index: AcT+E5hET9+nEEfPSr2Txpj+ReeOWQAAUnMg
  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Creating partitions on domain U

> even that doesn't work: maybe they partition the device (after heavily
> complaining about unsupportet ioctls; maybe it's the 
> get-geometry ioctl that
> isn't correctly implemented, because also "sfdisk -g /dev/hda" fails).

Looking at drivers/xen/blkfron/blkfront.c it looks like blkif_ioctl has
been fixed for 2.4 but not for 2.6. I don't see why this isn't in common
code.

Please could you try pulling blkif_ioctl out into the common code
section and deleting the 2.6 specific one.

Thanks,
Ian


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