Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 07:54:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 07:53:55 -0500 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:268 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 07:53:11 -0500 Message-ID: <3C909CE5.4020706@evision-ventures.com> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:51:49 +0100 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Andrew Morton , Roberto Nibali , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question about the ide related ioctl's BLK* in 2.5.7-pre1 kernel In-Reply-To: <3C9007F5.1000003@drugphish.ch> <3C900A11.55BA4B32@zip.com.au> <3C90939E.4070409@evision-ventures.com> <3C909AEE.1020401@mandrakesoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? - 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/