Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:07:55 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: IDE ioctl documentation & a new ioctl |
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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.
Jeff
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