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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: What's left over. 
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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In message <1036157418.12693.19.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> you write:
> On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 21:02, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > hosed/screaming, and various mid-layers are dying.  For LKCD to be of 
> > any use, it needs to _skip_ the block layer and talk directly to 
> > low-level drivers.
> 
> Rusty wrote a polled IDE driver that should handle some subset of that

Yes, patch has bitrotted but updating should be trivial.  There's
enough there that you get the idea though: frankly, it's noninvasive
enough for entry during the 2.6.x series, so it's been down on my
list:

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/patches/Misc/oopser.patch.gz

I'd love someone to take this for a spin and tweak it up...
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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