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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] My AMD IDE driver, v2.7
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> I -do- know the distrinction between hosts and devices.  I think there 
> should be -some- way, I don't care how, to filter out those unknown 
> commands (which may be perfectly valid for a small subset of special IBM 
> drives).  The net stack lets me do filtering, I want to sell you on the 
> idea of letting the ATA stack do the same thing.
> 
> You have convinced me that unconditional filtering is bad.  But I still 
> think people should be provided the option to filter if they so desire.
> 
>     Jeff

How hard would this be to farm off to an external utility?

	Gerhard



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Gerhard Mack

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<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.

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