From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: martin@dalecki.de
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE 104
Date: 26 Jul 2002 11:46:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027680390.13428.33.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D411134.60904@evision.ag>
On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 10:07, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> The only thing which is really 'external API' there is the declaration
> of the HDIO_XXX ioctl and among them in reality only HDIO_GETGEO
> is really used outside the scope of the dreddy hdparm application.
> And
> 99% of times its usage is bogous anyway. Or do you know any better
> examples I'm not aware of?
The struct hd_geometry is used by ioctl HDIO_GETGEO.
The struct hd_driveid is used by ioctl HDIO_GETIDENTITY
> The remainings will be moved away from there soon becouse it doesn't
> make any sense to include this at every single place out there where
> HDIO_GETGEO is the needed declaration. If some application needs ATA
This would be great, right now lots of drivers suck in the file for the
GETGEO stuff even though they are nothing to do with st506 or ide.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-26 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-24 21:13 Linux-2.5.28 Linus Torvalds
2002-07-24 21:46 ` Linux-2.5.28 Paul Larson
2002-07-24 21:57 ` Linux-2.5.28 Paul Larson
2002-07-24 22:11 ` Linux-2.5.28 Robert Love
2002-07-24 22:14 ` Linux-2.5.28 William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-24 22:20 ` Linux-2.5.28 Paul Larson
2002-07-24 23:31 ` Linux-2.5.28 Alessandro Suardi
2002-07-24 22:22 ` Linux-2.5.28 Robert Love
2002-07-24 22:49 ` Linux-2.5.28 Paul Larson
2002-07-24 22:32 ` Linux-2.5.28 Linus Torvalds
2002-07-24 22:30 ` Linux-2.5.28 Daniel Egger
2002-07-24 22:52 ` Linux-2.5.28 Linus Torvalds
2002-07-24 23:31 ` Linux-2.5.28 Daniel Egger
2002-07-25 1:08 ` Linux-2.5.28 Linus Torvalds
2002-07-25 1:54 ` Linux-2.5.28 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-07-25 3:34 ` Linux-2.5.28 link problem jeff millar
2002-07-26 5:18 ` Linux-2.5.27-28 "undefined reference to local symbols in discarded section .text.exit" jeff millar
2002-07-27 13:53 ` 2.5.27-28-29 linker error: " jeff millar
2002-07-26 5:24 ` Linux-2.5.28 link problem Adrian Bunk
2002-07-25 9:21 ` Linux-2.5.28 Daniel Egger
2002-07-27 23:57 ` Linux-2.5.28 Andries Brouwer
2002-07-28 2:02 ` Linux-2.5.28 Alan Cox
2002-07-28 2:47 ` Linux-2.5.28 Linus Torvalds
2002-07-28 4:40 ` Linux-2.5.28 Linus Torvalds
2002-07-28 4:47 ` Linux-2.5.28 Larry McVoy
2002-07-28 12:50 ` Linux-2.5.28 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-07-28 15:11 ` Linux-2.5.28 Andries Brouwer
2002-07-28 2:47 ` Linux-2.5.28 Greg KH
2002-07-28 15:56 ` Linux-2.5.28 Andries Brouwer
2002-07-28 18:53 ` Linux-2.5.28 Greg KH
2002-07-28 21:13 ` Linux-2.5.28 Andries Brouwer
2002-07-29 10:16 ` Linux-2.5.28 Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-29 18:15 ` Linux-2.5.28 Greg KH
[not found] ` <200207282203.g6SM3KI15155@fachschaft.cup.uni-muenchen.de>
2002-07-28 23:34 ` Linux-2.5.28 Andries Brouwer
2002-07-24 23:06 ` Linux-2.5.28 Jonathan Corbet
2002-07-25 5:56 ` Linux-2.5.28 Jens Axboe
2002-07-25 7:36 ` Linux-2.5.28 Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-24 22:43 ` Linux-2.5.28 Russell King
2002-07-24 23:02 ` Linux-2.5.28 Linus Torvalds
2002-07-24 23:55 ` Linux-2.5.28 Skip Ford
2002-07-24 23:15 ` Linux-2.5.28 Dave Jones
2002-07-24 23:19 ` Linux-2.5.28 Linus Torvalds
2002-07-25 10:16 ` Linux-2.5.28 Alexander Hoogerhuis
2002-07-25 0:37 ` i810_audio.c cli/sti fix Greg KH
2002-07-25 1:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-25 6:01 ` Greg KH
2002-07-25 6:19 ` cli-sti-removal.txt fixup Greg KH
2002-07-25 7:16 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-25 9:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-25 6:14 ` i810_audio.c cli/sti fix Doug Ledford
2002-07-27 9:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-27 12:35 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-28 6:13 ` Doug Ledford
2002-07-26 6:03 ` [PATCH] 2.5.28 small REQ_SPECIAL abstraction Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-26 14:38 ` Jens Axboe
2002-07-26 15:09 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-28 19:25 ` Jens Axboe
2002-07-28 23:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-29 5:39 ` Jens Axboe
2002-07-29 5:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-29 10:24 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-29 10:44 ` Jens Axboe
2002-07-29 11:05 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-26 6:48 ` [PATCH] 2.5.28 IDE 102 Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-26 7:10 ` [PATCH] 2.5.28 IDE 103 Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-26 7:23 ` [PATCH] IDE 104 Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-26 10:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-26 9:07 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-26 10:46 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-07-26 9:56 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-26 7:57 ` Linux-2.5.28 Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-26 8:43 ` [PATCH] IDE 106 Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-26 13:34 ` [PATCH] IDE 107 Marcin Dalecki
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