linux-kernel - Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

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Date:	Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:22:37 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
CC:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	David Brown <dmlb2000@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	gdb@...rceware.org
Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> 2. The badblocks stuff is PAGE_SIZEd too. Do we ever use it on modern
> disks? Maybe we can just remove this support.
> 

Badblocks is definitely still used in some configurations.

	-hpa
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