produced in the list ten years has some variant of internal error correction
(disks, cdrom, flash), so if it has user-visible bad blocks on it the
hardware has exhausted its remapping reserve and is dying, and you need to get
your data off pronto. (The one exception I can think of is floppies, and I
don't care.)
Currently we have these errors:
./modutils/Config.in: No helptext for 'CONFIG_FEATURE_QUERY_MODULE_INTERFACE'
./networking/Config.in: No helptext for 'CONFIG_IPADDR'
./networking/Config.in: No helptext for 'CONFIG_IPLINK'
./networking/Config.in: No helptext for 'CONFIG_IPROUTE'
./networking/Config.in: No helptext for 'CONFIG_IPTUNNEL'
./coreutils/Config.in: No helptext for 'CONFIG_UNIX2DOS'
in 2.4 (it fetched the same hd_geometry struct only with uint cylinders instead
of ushort cylinders: nothing that big has ever accurately reported gemoetry,
it's all LBA.
Also stop declaring the hd_geometry struct static: it's two chars, a short, and
a long for a grand total of 8 bytes. That can go on the stack.
ls has an ugly bug. ls uses an array of pointers, the elements of
which are all in a linked list. To free the elements, instead of
freeing all the elements in the array, array[0..nelements], it frees
by iterating the linked list starting at array[0], which it assumes is
the head of the list. Unfortunately, ls also sorts the array! So,
array[0] is no longer the head, but somewhere in the middle of the
linked list. This patch fixes this bug, and also adds an
ENABLE_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP stanza.
* Do not initialize globals to 0, it is done automatically
* unsigned short -> uint16_t, unsigned int -> uint32_t
where appropriate (did it ever work on Alphas?)
* triple sync() is silly - removed
* check_zone_nr uses check_zone_nr2 now
* remove trailing periods from messages, uppercase first letter
Make hdparm smaller:
* Make bb_ioctl return the status
* Replace ioctl with bb_ioctl in a few places
* Add bb_ioctl_alt, use where appropriate (four places)
* unsigned char args1[4+512] = {WIN_IDENTIFY,0,0,1,};
ate 0.5k of rodata, fix that
