Bart,
Did you say that there was some problem with the patch to add HDIO_GET_IDENTITY support to libata (attached)?
I forget what the issues were, and this has been sitting in libata-dev-2.6 for a while.
Jeff
diff -Nru a/drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c
--- a/drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c 2005-03-07 23:44:42 -05:00
+++ b/drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c 2005-03-07 23:44:42 -05:00
@@ -72,6 +72,17 @@
struct ata_port *ap;
struct ata_device *dev;
int val = -EINVAL, rc = -EINVAL;
+ struct hd_driveid drv_id = {
+ .cyls = 0,
+ .sectors = 0,
+ .heads = 0,
+ .fw_rev = "",
+ .model = "",
+ .cur_cyls = 0,
+ .cur_heads = 0,
+ .cur_sectors = 0,
+ };
+ int geom[3];
ap = (struct ata_port *) &scsidev->host->hostdata[0];
if (!ap)
@@ -94,6 +105,17 @@
val = (unsigned long) arg;
if (val != 0)
return -EINVAL;
+ return 0;
+
+ case HDIO_GET_IDENTITY:
+ ata_std_bios_param(scsidev, NULL, dev->n_sectors, geom);
+ drv_id.cur_heads = drv_id.heads = geom[0];
+ drv_id.cur_sectors = drv_id.sectors = geom[1];
+ drv_id.cur_cyls = drv_id.cyls = geom[2];
+ strncpy((char *) &drv_id.model, scsidev->model,
sizeof(drv_id.model));
+ strncpy((char *) &drv_id.fw_rev, scsidev->rev,
sizeof(drv_id.fw_rev));
+ if(copy_to_user((char *) arg, (char *) &drv_id, sizeof(drv_id)))
+ return(-EFAULT);
return 0;
default:
