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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1/8 Backport recent 2.6 IDE updates to 2.4.x
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On Sun Aug 17, 2003 at 09:44:23AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sul, 2003-08-17 at 07:12, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > This patch eliminates HDIO_GETGEO_BIG and HDIO_GETGEO_BIG_RAW,
> > where are entirely unused and unnecessary.  They were also
> > removed from 2.6.x,
> 
> Rejected by 2.4 IDE maintainer. Removing API's (even dumb ones) during
> a stable release is not good practice. 

No worries.  The other patches do not depend on this one
and I suspected this one might get struck down.  I just 
carried it along to try and keep the 2.4 and 2.6 drivers 
consistant,

 -Erik

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