Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6-pre2 IDE cleanup 16

From: Martin Dalecki (dalecki@evision-ventures.com)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 05:15:21 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
>>At 11:48 05/03/02, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>>
>>>5. No body is using it as of now and therefore nobody should miss it.
>>>
>>That is a very bold statement which is incorrect. I remember reading at
>>least one post to lkml from a company who is using the Taskfile ioctls and
>>
>
> I know several people using them, and for some ioctl operations they are
> required. In fact without taskfile ioctl stuff I can't make my laptop resume
> correctly for example. (it needs proper drive please wake up sequences to
> go the ibm microdrive)

I would rather love to see a systrace of it in action to see which
API this is actually really using. ;-).

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