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From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TASKFILE ioctl for libata?
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:28:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060217172804.GF14959@harddisk-recovery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58cb370e0602170915mda252e5qc3b0f0a65fd12022@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 06:15:12PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On 2/17/06, Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com> wrote:
> > What kind of delicate broken things are you referring to? The commands
> > I've tried so far (identify, read sector, etc.) just work.
> 
> Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt

I actually meant "broken things beyond what is documented in hdio.txt"
;-)

> TASKFILE ioctl will be hopefully removed from drivers/ide
> in few months time (and replaced by SG_IO).

Note that there are two widely used programs that use TASKFILE: hdparm
and smartcl. We'd rather don't have many complaining users on this list
(or on linux-kernel), so please put the announcement in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt .


Erik

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-17 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-15 14:34 TASKFILE ioctl for libata? Erik Mouw
2006-02-15 19:00 ` Mark Lord
     [not found]   ` <a3d8b0a0602151257x52f6011bs1b37d9ac43b26619@mail.gmail.com>
2006-02-15 21:10     ` Matt Gillette
2006-02-16  0:06       ` Tejun Heo
2006-02-16  0:56   ` Erik Mouw
2006-02-16  2:20     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-16  9:30       ` Tejun Heo
2006-02-17  8:38         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-17  9:19           ` Tejun Heo
2006-02-17 14:50             ` Mark Lord
2006-02-17 17:17           ` Erik Mouw
2006-02-17 18:27           ` Timothy Thelin
2006-02-17 17:05         ` Erik Mouw
2006-02-17 17:15           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-02-17 17:28             ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2006-02-17 18:13               ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-02-17 17:07       ` Erik Mouw

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