In message <200907080556.n685ufsn040...@svn.freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar writ
es:
>Log:
> Revert revisions 188839 and 188868. Use of the ioctl in geom_dev.c
> is invalid because the ioctl happens without prior open. The ioctl
> got introduced to provide backward compatibility for extended
> partitions, but it ended up not being used because it didn't work
> as expected. Since there are no consumers of the ioctl and the
> implementation is broken, the best fix is to remove the code
> entirely.
>
> Spotted by: phk
For the record
Really spotted by: scottl
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