[Parted-maintainers] Bug#757986: kfreebsd: multiple "inappropriate ioctl for device" prompts

[Steven Chamberlain]

Taking a very critical view to kfreebsd's available time and resources,
we might leave this totally unaddressed for jessie and leave it as an
errata again.  Yes that's shoddy, but it is a mostly cosmetic issue.

It happens due to CAM changes in kfreebsd-9 and later.  I think the only
serious effect is that it can't show a disk's vendor/serial in partman.
 (Or determine the sector size, but AFAIK that won't affect partman
which uses 1MiB alignments anyway).

Jeff Epler's patch is very good but not perfect (even has a code comment
to that effect).  It basically implements a new CAM mechanism to do the
above.  I tried already but failed to condense it into a smaller change.

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven at pyro.eu.org

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