From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] libata: improve ATA ACPI support Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:05:03 -0400 Message-ID: <462D2D8F.5030200@rtr.ca> References: <11772636651400-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <20070422192500.2e1014fd@the-village.bc.nu> <462C690B.1090802@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:3183 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754317AbXDWWFG (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:05:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <462C690B.1090802@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Alan Cox , jeff@garzik.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net, trenn@suse.de, forrest.zhao@gmail.com, kristen.c.accardi@intel.com, lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo wrote: > > of the time. I think HDIO_GET_IDENTITY's meaning is something like > "give me IDENTIFY page of the device as seen by the driver" and doesn't > really matter as long as it can be used to get general idea about the > device. The correct/original meaning of that ioctl was "boot time IDENTIFY" data. As Alan said, it later got bastardized by various people at some point. Cheers