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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: ATA Passthru unimplemented protocols
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:38:49 -0400
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Timothy Thelin wrote:
> Well it doesn't seem that nasty to adopt flagged access.  From a userland
> API point of view how about adopting the IDE driver's taskfile mechanism,
> and simply translating that into the yet-to-be internal flagged mechanism?

There is actually already an internal flagged mechanism, but we only 
have two flags at present: ATA_TFLAG_ISADDR and ATA_TFLAG_DEVICE.

	Jeff