On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 11:59 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 17:53 +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Andres Salomon wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 13:03 +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > > > On Wen, 16 Nov 2005, Andres Salomon wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > > > > If for some reason its wrong values end up to be used then that could > > > > explain why people are still corrupting their partition tables. > > > > > > There's a comment in the code that suggests moving to EDD. However, in > > > linux, that requires loading edd.ko (which is a module in debian > > > kernels, and is completely disabled in ubuntu kernels). > > > > Sooner or later they will catch up, other distros include it already for > > a long time. > > I just talked to BenC, he just enabled it for the next ubuntu release. > > So the question is, if /sys/firmware/edd doesn't exist, do we attempt to > `modprobe edd` from within libparted? Or is that something that > libparted should not be doing? I don't think libparted should be using modprobe to check/init a module. We could make edd a prereq for libparted or we could find another way which doesn't involve the use of a linux kernel module.
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