Re: bitkeeper / IDE cleanup

From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 08:09:25 EST


    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.

Andries
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