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Date:      Mon, 17 Jun 1996 23:19:14 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        bde@freefall.freebsd.org (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/kern subr_diskslice.c src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.c
Message-ID:  <199606172119.XAA05056@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199606171443.HAA22368@freefall.freebsd.org> from Bruce Evans at "Jun 17, 96 07:43:57 am"

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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. ;-)



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