Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:47:15 -0500 | From | Jim Nelson <> | Subject | Re: IDE ioctl documentation & a new ioctl |
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Edward Falk wrote: > Hi all; let me introduce myself: I'm the guy that does IDE sustaining > for Google. > > I'm getting ready to sit down and document the IDE ioctls. Probably > Documentation/hdio.txt or something like that. Before I start though, > is anybody already doing this? >
No one that I know of. I had a thought in the back of my head of tackling ioctl documentation after I went through the stuff that's already in Documentation, but I figured I had enough to chew on for right now.
I'd probably make a subdirectory - i. e. Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt - to differentiate it from other documents, and make it easier to get maintainers to put some stuff in there. ;) AFAICT, there is next to no documentation on ioctl's anywhere in the kernel tarball.
> 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? > > -ed falk > efalk@google.com > - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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