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To: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6-pre2 IDE cleanup 16
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At 12:36 05/03/02, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>>At 11:48 05/03/02, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>>
>>>5. No body is using it as of now and therefore nobody should miss it.
>>
>>That is a very bold statement which is incorrect. I remember reading at 
>>least one post to lkml from a company who is using the Taskfile ioctls 
>>and having a lot of praise for them. Sorry I delete older lkml stuff so I 
>>can't quote you the post but I am sure you could find it in the archives 
>>if you tried to look.
>
>It can't be older then 2.5.4 becouse before it just wasn't there.

Old is a few days-a week on my time scale but the post i am referring to is 
going at least a month or so back. And of course it can be older, you seem 
to be forgetting that Andre's IDE patches have been around for a _long_ 
time now for 2.4.x...

Anton


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