From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Edward Falk <efalk@google.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE ioctl documentation & a new ioctl
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:02:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58cb370e04111912026b189bc8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <419D719B.1090408@pobox.com>
Hi!
Documenting existing ioctls would be appreciated by many people...
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:07:55 -0500, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> Edward Falk wrote:
> > And while I'm on the subject, we're getting ready to write a new hdio
> > ioctl, an extension of HDIO_DRIVE_CMD. The intent here is to be
> > slightly more general-purpose than HDIO_DRIVE_CMD, with an eye to
> > supporting the full set of SMART functionality. Current plan is to have
> > the user pass a struct containing a pointer to the argument list, a
> > pointer to the data buffer, and a data buffer length value. Consider
> > this a design document; any comments and/or feature requests?
>
> HDIO_DRIVE_TASK and flagged taskfiles should cover everything you need.
HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE for (flagged) taskfiles and commands requiring
data transfers.
Bartlomiej
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-19 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-19 2:39 IDE ioctl documentation & a new ioctl Edward Falk
2004-11-19 3:47 ` Jim Nelson
2004-11-19 19:38 ` Edward Falk
2004-11-19 4:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-19 19:38 ` Edward Falk
2004-11-19 20:02 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
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