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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cciss: add passthrough ioctl
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
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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
>=20
> 	[PATCH] cciss: add passthrough ioctl
> =09
> 	Patch from Stephen Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
> =09
> 	Add new big passthrough ioctl to allow large buffers.  Used by e.g.  onl=
ine
> 	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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