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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: LibATA SCSI WRITE_BUFFER to ATA DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE patch
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:25:08 -0400
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salimmu@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net wrote:
> Attach is a patch that adds translation of scsi WRITE_BUFFER to ATA_DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE command.\
..

Do we really need or want this extra code in-kernel?

This type of thing is already doable from user-space with SG_IO + ATA_16.
Eg.  hdparm --fwdownload

???