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SubjectRe: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5

>From alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Fri Jul 12 21:43:27 2002

>On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 20:37, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> >o Many ide floppy devices can do ATAPI but get it horribly wrong
>>
>> Describe the problems.

>Go read the source code, do your own homework

Fine! You repeat that you have no argument that stands a check.
So let us take it as prooven that there is no problem with resent
(< 10 year old) drives.

>>
>> Sorry, this has nothing to do with dev_t

>It has a huge amount to do with dev_t. It should be immediately obvious
>why dev_t is a critical factor in getting that interface working in a
>sane fashion.


If a sane driver interface depends on dev_t being 32 bits, then there
would be a lot og junk in the Linux kernel :-(

Jörg

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