Re: [PATCH] hdreg.h

[Martin Dalecki]

Użytkownik [e-mail] napisał:
>     On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:48:32PM +0200, [e-mail] wrote:
>     > No, fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk do not use HDIO_GETGEO_BIG.
>     > And indeed, the ioctl is completely meaningless.
> 
>     In many current distributions (e.g. from Red Hat, Mandrake and Caldera)
>     they do.
> 
> Yes, distributions are known to introduce buggy patches.
> 
> Moreover, distributions are known to copy each others bugs.
> Sometimes I tell one distribution that a patch is buggy,
> and they revert their patch, but some months later they
> have it again, copied from some other distribution.
> Even bad "segmentation fault" bugs are copied.
> 
> But for 2.5 this is not important. Distributions have time
> to fix stuff before 2.6.

And developement kernels are known to require updated:

util-linux,
modutils
mounts
net-utils

and so on :-).

As long as long an installed system doesn't break utterly
there is no reaons IMHO why cleanups shouldn't be done.