From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: LibATA SCSI WRITE_BUFFER to ATA DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE patch Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:07:17 -0400 Message-ID: <49D66C75.9050005@pobox.com> References: <20090401205115.GA32307@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net> <49D4F4F4.6040406@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:41175 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751725AbZDCUHY (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 16:07:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49D4F4F4.6040406@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord , salimmu@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, scameron@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net, mike.miller@hp.com, steve.cameron@hp.com 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