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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: petkovbb@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE S.M.A.R.T. ioctl errors
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:55:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <488E405E.4010300@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807281822.05211.bzolnier@gmail.com>

If we're going to continue to keep drivers/ide on life-support,
then perhaps one should just add SG_IO::ATA_16 support into it
and leave the "legacy" ioctls alone.

I've done this for linux-2.2.xx (really!), and the patch was rather
tiny indeed -- and that custom kernel now supports all of the fancy
ioctl() needs of hdparm-8.9 and smartctl.

Perhaps a similar patch for drivers/ide ?

Here's my 2.2.xx hack for perusal:
 http://empeg-hijack.sourceforge.net/patches/relative/v489-v490.patch.gz

It won't work on current kernels, of course, but perhaps something similar would.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-28 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-28  6:01 IDE S.M.A.R.T. ioctl errors Borislav Petkov
2008-07-28 14:44 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-07-28 16:16   ` Boris Petkov
2008-07-28 16:22     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-07-28 21:55       ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-08-02 16:38         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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