Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:39:34 -0800 | From | Edward Falk <> | Subject | IDE ioctl documentation & a new ioctl |
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Hi all; let me introduce myself: I'm the guy that does IDE sustaining for Google.
I'm getting ready to sit down and document the IDE ioctls. Probably Documentation/hdio.txt or something like that. Before I start though, is anybody already doing this?
And while I'm on the subject, we're getting ready to write a new hdio ioctl, an extension of HDIO_DRIVE_CMD. The intent here is to be slightly more general-purpose than HDIO_DRIVE_CMD, with an eye to supporting the full set of SMART functionality. Current plan is to have the user pass a struct containing a pointer to the argument list, a pointer to the data buffer, and a data buffer length value. Consider this a design document; any comments and/or feature requests?
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