[PATCH] hdparm size reduction

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 5:07 pm, Tito wrote:
> > What exactly is the use case for this?  I haven't got the half-hour to
> > read through this and try to untangle the logic right now.  (Bit of a
> > mess, isn't it?)  What command line would trigger this output, or make a
> > difference in the test?
>
> hdparm -I /dev/hda

Ok, having seen this in context: we shouldn't make any claims about the 
checksum unless we're actually _verifying_ it, somehow.

Does the mainstream hdparm code do anything useful with this?

Rob
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