Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/gpt

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <201511291418.tATEIwRt002398%server.CornerstoneService.ca@localhost>,
John Nemeth  <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost> wrote:
>
>     Why did you leave out the call to getdisksize() for when the
>ioctls don't exist?  Actually, why did you even bother with this
>patch, since it is pretty much equivalent to what was there before,
>minus the missing functionality?

Because who has this functionality (drvctl) and does not have the
ioctls? Only the NetBSD-6 tools build. This is too much complexity
for very little benefit. It is simpler to add the ioctls to NetBSD-6
than keeping all this messy libprop code around (which we have again
in fsck...) :-)

christos