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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Xavier <x.guimard@free.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proposed patch for IDE missing commands
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 18:37:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080403183741.736fde6c@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47F47324.80108@free.fr>

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:03:16 +0200
Xavier <x.guimard@free.fr> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working for the french Gendarmerie Nationale and we've decided to 
> publish our patch for the kernel that provides some missing IDE commands 
> to access to protected areas (HPA and DCO).

Code looks fine barring style oddities but
- Almost all vendors are moving to libata
- I don't understand why you cannot use the existing SG_IO interface to
issue the needed commands without adding more kernel bits ?

Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-07 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-03  6:03 Xavier
2008-04-03  9:28 ` Boris Petkov
2008-04-03 10:20   ` Frans Pop
2008-04-03 15:25     ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-03 15:42       ` Boris Petkov
2008-04-03 17:37 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-04-07 15:45 ` Mark Lord

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