Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:32:48 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: Need IDE Taskfile Access |
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Do not worry Garet, I will reimplement it later in 2.5. I need some free time to do it, (maybe next month?).
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > Garet, > > You are wasting electons, the interface is gone and the API to the > transport is wrecked. I will need to compose a loadable module to renable > the support. Clearly 2.5/2.6 is not friendly with the needs of the > industry and it will never be at this rate.
Will be...
> > In the end, I will end up writing a closed ATA binary driver for sale as a > replacement. I have had several requests to consider the option. As much > as I do not like the idea, it is less offensive than the current > direction.
Ugh, please dont...
> > Andre Hedrick > LAD Storage Consulting Group > > > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Garet Cammer wrote: > > > For some time now we have been writing user applications that send ATAPI commands to the IDE bus to initialize and configure our hardware RAID 1 controllers. This has been working well, thanks to Andre's patch that gave us taskfile access through the ioctl API. We were counting on it to be a permanent part of the 2.5/2.6 kernel, since there is a lot of hardware in the field using these apps. > > Imagine our surprise when we discovered that taskfile access was being abandoned completely! > > Although we understand that the kernel may need to filter some commands, why can't applications access at least the Smart commands? Help! > > Regards, > > Garet Cammer > > Software Development > > Arco Computer Products > > (954) 925-2688 > > > > - > 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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