Messages in this thread | | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Date | Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:09:25 GMT | Subject | Re: bitkeeper / IDE cleanup |
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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.
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