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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:51:49 +0100
From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Question about the ide related ioctl's BLK* in 2.5.7-pre1 kernel
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Martin Dalecki wrote:
> 
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>> Roberto Nibali wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> This is WRONG. What I did here was just removal of unused code.
>> They got obsoleted by the BIO infrastructure changes.
> 
> 
> Martin,
> 
> Did Andrew really deserve that?
> 
> Andrew's patch -implements- those ioctls.
> 
> Can our new IDE maintainer please have a little bit more patience and 
> respect to those who have been hacking the kernel actively for a while? 
> Andrew certainly has earned our respect... calling changes wrong without 
> reading them does not.

It was just a note on the who "broke them". However I welcome his
efforts to actually implement the functionality in a clean manner.
Still something unclear? I wish not?

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