[ros-dev] HDD Geometry switch

[Eric Kohl]

caemyr at myopera.com wrote:
> Should i mention again, that i`m not a dev and i never posed as one?
> You could simply set it as optional flag.
> You could wait with it at least after the release is done and we can concentrate on new changes.
> You could push this change with, for example, major compiler change that would block rebuilding anyway.

Olaf, I announced the change! You did not respond! Please tell me how 
long do I have to wait for a response? A week? Two weeks? Six months?

Since you insist on not being a developer, I attached a special class2.c 
file which is configured to use the old geometry. Replace the 
drivers\storage\class\class2\class2.c file with the attached one and 
build ReactOS and you are using the old geometry again.


> There could be several more things possibly done to minimize the impact of this.
> You used neither. This is what i`m angry about. Look at CMake, how long the transition is taking place, how are its effects taken into consideration. This change needed at least 10% of it. It got none and i cant stop thinking its simply because most of devs will even know its there. Its a pity that this does not extend to all of us:/

Please do not compare my tiny patch with the CMake changes.

>
> Lets finish the discussion. The odds are all against me. We will simply need to live with its effects. I just hope that my pessimism is not correct. I hate being right:/
>
> End of Drama. Sorry to everyone, especially Eric, who is feeling offended by my outbreak,
> I cannot promise it wont happen in the future again, so i`m not doing so.

I am not feeling offended at all.


Regards
Eric
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