From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
jeff@garzik.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net,
trenn@suse.de, forrest.zhao@gmail.com,
kristen.c.accardi@intel.com, lenb@kernel.org,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] libata: improve ATA ACPI support
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:05:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <462D2D8F.5030200@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <462C690B.1090802@gmail.com>
Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> of the time. I think HDIO_GET_IDENTITY's meaning is something like
> "give me IDENTIFY page of the device as seen by the driver" and doesn't
> really matter as long as it can be used to get general idea about the
> device.
The correct/original meaning of that ioctl was "boot time IDENTIFY" data.
As Alan said, it later got bastardized by various people at some point.
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-23 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-22 17:41 [PATCHSET] libata: improve ATA ACPI support Tejun Heo
2007-04-22 17:41 ` [PATCH 02/13] libata: separate ATA_EHI_DID_RESET into DID_SOFTRESET and DID_HARDRESET Tejun Heo
2007-04-22 17:50 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-22 17:41 ` [PATCH 01/13] ahci: consolidate common port flags Tejun Heo
2007-04-22 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-28 18:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-22 17:41 ` [PATCH 03/13] libata: separate out ata_dev_reread_id() Tejun Heo
2007-04-28 18:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-29 2:52 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-22 17:41 ` [PATCH 07/13] libata-acpi: add ATA_FLAG_ACPI_SATA port flag Tejun Heo
2007-04-22 17:53 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-22 18:03 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-22 18:14 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-23 8:00 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-22 18:03 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-22 18:09 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-28 18:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-29 2:56 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-22 17:41 ` [PATCH 04/13] libata: during revalidation, check n_sectors after device is configured Tejun Heo
2007-04-22 17:41 ` [PATCH 09/13] libata-acpi: clean up ata_acpi_exec_tfs() Tejun Heo
2007-04-28 19:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-29 2:56 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-22 17:41 ` [PATCH 10/13] libata-acpi: miscellaneous cleanups Tejun Heo
2007-04-28 19:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-22 17:41 ` [PATCH 08/13] libata-acpi: implement ata_acpi_associate() Tejun Heo
2007-04-28 18:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-22 17:41 ` [PATCH 05/13] libata-acpi: s/CONFIG_SATA_ACPI/CONFIG_ATA_ACPI/ Tejun Heo
2007-04-28 18:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-22 17:41 ` [PATCH 06/13] libata-acpi: clean up parameters and misc stuff Tejun Heo
2007-04-28 18:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-29 2:54 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-29 3:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-22 17:41 ` [PATCH 12/13] libata-acpi: remove redundant checks Tejun Heo
2007-04-22 17:41 ` [PATCH 11/13] libata: reimplement ACPI invocation Tejun Heo
2007-04-28 19:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-22 17:41 ` [PATCH 13/13] libata-acpi: implement _GTM/_STM support Tejun Heo
2007-04-22 18:25 ` [PATCHSET] libata: improve ATA ACPI support Alan Cox
2007-04-23 8:06 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-23 22:05 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-04-23 23:03 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-04-23 22:03 ` Mark Lord
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