virtio_blk: provide getgeo
Rusty, I currently try to make my guest boot from an virtio root device without having an external kernel. Some of the tools that I tried expect HDIO_GETGEO to work. The most interesting value is likely the geo.start value to get the offset of a partition. This value is filled by block/ioctl.c if fops->getgeo is set. This patch also fills in some standard values for heads, sectors and cylinders. Makes sense? Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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