From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI, libata: add support for ATA_16  commands to libata
 ATAPI devices
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:29:13 -0500
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To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03 2007, James Bottomley wrote:
>> Er, well, as you know, I've never been a fan of this static list.  I
>> thought Jens was going to put us all out of our misery by making the
>> list settable per device by root and thus shovel the problem off onto
>> the distros?
> 
> The code is there, just haven't had the guts to merge it yet.
> 
> http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=bf5f922d167a5c5cf57132bbcaa1e0ddfd5c45f7
> 

That's nice, but doesn't help with the case of trying to do ATA passthru
to ATAPI devices, the subject of the original patch here.

Cheers!