From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>, salimmu@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, scameron@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net,
mike.miller@hp.com, steve.cameron@hp.com
Subject: Re: LibATA SCSI WRITE_BUFFER to ATA DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE patch
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:07:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D66C75.9050005@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D4F4F4.6040406@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord wrote:
> 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
If it can be done in userspace, I don't see much reason to add emulation
in libata-scsi.c...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-03 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-01 20:51 LibATA SCSI WRITE_BUFFER to ATA DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE patch salimmu
2009-04-01 21:11 ` James Bottomley
2009-04-01 21:23 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-04-02 15:25 ` Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2009-04-02 17:25 ` Mark Lord
2009-04-03 20:07 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2009-04-03 20:24 ` James Bottomley
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