From owner-cvs-sbin Mon Jun 17 14:53:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-sbin Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA02890 for cvs-sbin-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA02432; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:50:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA03424; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 23:50:39 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA12634; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 23:50:38 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA05056; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 23:19:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606172119.XAA05056@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskslice.c src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.c To: bde@freefall.freebsd.org (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 23:19:14 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sbin@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199606171443.HAA22368@freefall.freebsd.org> from Bruce Evans at "Jun 17, 96 07:43:57 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-sbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > Moved initialization of defaults for the label for the whole disk from > disklabel(8) to the kernel (dsopen()). Drivers should initialize the > hardware values (rpm, interleave, skews). Drivers currently don't do > this, but it usually doesn't matter since rotational position stuff is > normally disabled. The `od' driver does now, and it's perhaps one of the rare occasions these days where it might be useful. (MOs having a `real' geometry.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)