IDE ioctl documentation & a new ioctl
From: Edward Falk
Date: Thu Nov 18 2004 - 21:53:27 EST
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?
-ed falk
efalk@xxxxxxxxxx
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