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| author | Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> | 2006-03-27 01:17:54 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-27 08:44:59 -0800 |
| commit | 3ac51e741a46af7a20f55e79d3e3aeaa93c6c544 (patch) | |
| tree | cab595a4d9691d7602616337b7862a1a3d692b97 /include/linux/dm-ioctl.h | |
| parent | 1134e5ae79bab61c05657ca35a6297cf87202e35 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] dm store geometry
Allow drive geometry to be stored with a new DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY ioctl.
Device-mapper will now respond to HDIO_GETGEO. If the geometry information is
not available, zero will be returned for all of the parameters.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/dm-ioctl.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/dm-ioctl.h | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h b/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h index fa75ba0d635..c67c6786612 100644 --- a/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h +++ b/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h @@ -80,6 +80,16 @@ * * DM_TARGET_MSG: * Pass a message string to the target at a specific offset of a device. + * + * DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY: + * Set the geometry of a device by passing in a string in this format: + * + * "cylinders heads sectors_per_track start_sector" + * + * Beware that CHS geometry is nearly obsolete and only provided + * for compatibility with dm devices that can be booted by a PC + * BIOS. See struct hd_geometry for range limits. Also note that + * the geometry is erased if the device size changes. */ /* @@ -218,6 +228,7 @@ enum { /* Added later */ DM_LIST_VERSIONS_CMD, DM_TARGET_MSG_CMD, + DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY_CMD }; /* @@ -247,6 +258,7 @@ typedef char ioctl_struct[308]; #define DM_TABLE_STATUS_32 _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_TABLE_STATUS_CMD, ioctl_struct) #define DM_LIST_VERSIONS_32 _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_LIST_VERSIONS_CMD, ioctl_struct) #define DM_TARGET_MSG_32 _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_TARGET_MSG_CMD, ioctl_struct) +#define DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY_32 _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY_CMD, ioctl_struct) #endif #define DM_IOCTL 0xfd @@ -270,11 +282,12 @@ typedef char ioctl_struct[308]; #define DM_LIST_VERSIONS _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_LIST_VERSIONS_CMD, struct dm_ioctl) #define DM_TARGET_MSG _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_TARGET_MSG_CMD, struct dm_ioctl) +#define DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY _IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY_CMD, struct dm_ioctl) #define DM_VERSION_MAJOR 4 -#define DM_VERSION_MINOR 5 +#define DM_VERSION_MINOR 6 #define DM_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL 0 -#define DM_VERSION_EXTRA "-ioctl (2005-10-04)" +#define DM_VERSION_EXTRA "-ioctl (2006-02-17)" /* Status bits */ #define DM_READONLY_FLAG (1 << 0) /* In/Out */ |