Debian bug report logs - #1552, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1552: miscutils/fdisk.c small fix
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Package: miscutils
Version: 1.3-5

According to include-1.2.1's include/linux/hdreg.h HDIO_REQ is obselete
and should be replaced by HDIO_GETGEO; it has been removed in 1.3.21.

Please apply this fix and pass this on to the upstream maintainer:
-- CUT ME --
--- fdisk.c.bak Thu Oct  5 19:35:37 1995
+++ fdisk.c     Thu Oct  5 19:35:37 1995
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@
        }
        if (SECTOR_SIZE != read(fd, buffer, SECTOR_SIZE))
                fatal(unable_to_read);
-       if (!ioctl(fd, HDIO_REQ, &geometry)) {
+       if (!ioctl(fd, HDIO_GETGEO, &geometry)) {
                heads = geometry.heads;
                sectors = geometry.sectors;
                cylinders = geometry.cylinders;
-- OUCH --

Ray
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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: jdassen@WI.LeidenUniv.NL (J.H.M.Dassen)
Subject: Bug#1552: Acknowledgement (was: miscutils/fdisk.c small fix)
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