From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Please help me to understand the interaction of the various ATA drivers Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:09:54 -0700 Message-ID: <20150430150954.GA26574@infradead.org> References: <1430343517.30346.10.camel@afalanga4.micron.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:59074 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751565AbbD3PJz (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:09:55 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1430343517.30346.10.camel@afalanga4.micron.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "Andy Falanga (afalanga)" Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Why don't you just send your ATA taskfile as ATA_12 or ATA_16 CDB through the device node ans save yourself all the work of writing a driver?