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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:25:21 -0800
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To: Roberto Nibali <ratz@drugphish.ch>
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Subject: Re: Question about the ide related ioctl's BLK* in 2.5.7-pre1 kernel
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Roberto Nibali wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> What for are BLKRAGET, BLKFRAGET and BLKSECTGET still needed?

They got collaterally damaged in the IDE "cleanup".  The patch at
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.6/dallocbase-10-readahead.patch
resurrects them.

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