Re: [PATCH] cciss: add passthrough ioctl

From: Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 05:30:14 EST

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On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 05:38, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> ChangeSet 1.1058, 2003/03/02 20:38:36-08:00, akpm@digeo.com
>
> [PATCH] cciss: add passthrough ioctl
>
> Patch from Stephen Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
>
> Add new big passthrough ioctl to allow large buffers. Used by e.g. online
> array controller firmware flash utility.

WHY?

didn't 2.5 have a generic method of doing this instead of weird per
driver ioctls ?

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