Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 09 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > to actively poll the drive to make it work. Ugh. Fortunately, if somebody
> > > wants this type of thing, they can code it up in user space using the
> > > CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl.
> > >
> >
> > Polling isn't so bad, however, it really bothers me that this is
> > CDROM-specific. We need a way to send packets to any device.
>
> ide-floppy could be easily modified to support this.
>
It would be better if it was generic, so all devices could do it. It
would be even better if we simply ditched all IDE drivers except
IDE-disk and IDE-SCSI so we don't have to deal with inconsistencies
between IDE and SCSI either...
-hpa
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