From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: anand.kulkarni.remove.this@banashankari.net,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Anand.Kulkarni@hitachigst.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20] libata: Support HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE ioctl
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:32:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E8C238.5030704@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45DFBF27.1060707@gmail.com>
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Anand Kulkarni wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Attached is a patch to allow HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE ioctl calls to libata
>> devices so that arbitrary ATA commands that need PIO data transfers in
>> either direction can be issued. I have tested it with linux kernel
>> 2.6.20. The format of the input arguments is the same as for the
>> regular ATA HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE ioctl : Code that makes ioctl calls to
>> ATA devices on /dev/hda can be sent as is to SATA devices on /dev/sda.
>>
>> Since this is the first time I am sending a patch, please let me know
>> if I should do anything differently.
>
> I was kind of hoping we could drop HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE. Please take a
I tend to agree
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-03 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-22 2:13 [PATCH 2.6.20] libata: Support HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE ioctl Anand Kulkarni
2007-02-24 4:29 ` Tejun Heo
2007-03-03 0:32 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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