Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:09:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:09:43 -0500 Received: from hera.cwi.nl ([192.16.191.8]:14488 "EHLO hera.cwi.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:09:27 -0500 From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:09:25 GMT Message-Id: To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, dalecki@evision-ventures.com Subject: Re: bitkeeper / IDE cleanup Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From dalecki@evision-ventures.com Wed Mar 6 13:53:24 2002 > I very much distrust the possibility of defining any abstract interface. > For special purpose things one just wants to send certain commands and > data to the disk, and user space knows which commands and what data, > and the kernel doesn't, so has to allow user space access. Well then please answer the following: ... Actually Alan Cox convinced me that it still makes sense to have a IOCTL_ATA_DRIVE_TAKE_ME_HARD_FROM_THE_REAR, but ... Aha, so you are convinced. That is what I hoped to achieve. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/