From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Mouw Subject: Re: TASKFILE ioctl for libata? Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:28:04 +0100 Message-ID: <20060217172804.GF14959@harddisk-recovery.com> References: <20060215143439.GA17850@harddisk-recovery.com> <43F37A5E.1090301@rtr.ca> <20060216005643.GA28396@harddisk-recovery.com> <43F3E17E.1090701@pobox.com> <43F4461C.1080501@gmail.com> <20060217170524.GC14959@harddisk-recovery.com> <58cb370e0602170915mda252e5qc3b0f0a65fd12022@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from dtp.xs4all.nl ([80.126.206.180]:6367 "HELO abra2.bitwizard.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750811AbWBQR2G (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:28:06 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <58cb370e0602170915mda252e5qc3b0f0a65fd12022@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Tejun Heo , Jeff Garzik , Mark Lord , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 06:15:12PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On 2/17/06, Erik Mouw 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 -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands