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From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, dalecki@evision-ventures.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bitkeeper / IDE cleanup
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:09:25 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <UTC200203061309.NAA197223.aeb@cwi.nl> (raw)

    From dalecki@evision-ventures.com Wed Mar  6 13:53:24 2002

    > I very much distrust the possibility of defining any abstract interface.
    > For special purpose things one just wants to send certain commands and
    > data to the disk, and user space knows which commands and what data,
    > and the kernel doesn't, so has to allow user space access.

    Well then please answer the following:
    ...

    Actually Alan Cox convinced me that it still makes sense to have a
    IOCTL_ATA_DRIVE_TAKE_ME_HARD_FROM_THE_REAR, but ...

Aha, so you are convinced. That is what I hoped to achieve.

Andries

             reply	other threads:[~2002-03-06 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-06 13:09 Andries.Brouwer [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-06 12:12 bitkeeper / IDE cleanup Andries.Brouwer
2002-03-06 12:52 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 14:26   ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 14:52   ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 14:55     ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-05 23:58 Andries.Brouwer
2002-03-06  9:33 ` Martin Dalecki

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