Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:51:49 +0100 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: Question about the ide related ioctl's BLK* in 2.5.7-pre1 kernel |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > Martin Dalecki wrote: > >> Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>> Roberto Nibali wrote: >>> >>>> What for are BLKRAGET, BLKFRAGET and BLKSECTGET still needed? >>> >>> >>> >>> They got collaterally damaged in the IDE "cleanup". The patch at >>> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.6/dallocbase-10-readahead.patch >>> >>> resurrects them. >> >> >> >> This is WRONG. What I did here was just removal of unused code. >> They got obsoleted by the BIO infrastructure changes. > > > Martin, > > Did Andrew really deserve that? > > Andrew's patch -implements- those ioctls. > > Can our new IDE maintainer please have a little bit more patience and > respect to those who have been hacking the kernel actively for a while? > Andrew certainly has earned our respect... calling changes wrong without > reading them does not.
It was just a note on the who "broke them". However I welcome his efforts to actually implement the functionality in a clean manner. Still something unclear? I wish not?
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