From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE not supported in libata ? Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:18:20 +0200 Message-ID: <46ED1F0C.6020101@gmail.com> References: <348832.98955.qm@web35402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <46E9BA39.7000705@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.190]:33091 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750827AbXIPMUK (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:20:10 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so1048151rvb for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:20:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46E9BA39.7000705@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Kantor Zsolt , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Kantor Zsolt wrote: >> HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE is not supported in libata ? and if not then which >> was the last version of >> libata that supported the HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE command in which kernel ? > > libata has never supported HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE. && it won't. The TASKFILE interface is pretty broken and had several behavior idiosynchronicities (Documentataion/ioctl/hdio.txt). IDE -> libata transition is pretty good chance to kill it. -- tejun