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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Akira Iguchi <akira2.iguchi@toshiba.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] drivers/ata: add low-level I/O calls
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:00:45 +0900
Akira Iguchi <akira2.iguchi@toshiba.co.jp> wrote:

> Dear everyone,
> 
> This is the patchset (based on 2.6.20-rc4) to add low-level I/O calls
> which access the taskfile registers. The idea comes from drivers/ide
> IN*/OUT* calls.

I think this is the wrong approach. The existing code provides methods
for things like "read the status", "write a taskfile" and this is the
style that should be kept.

Alan