Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6-pre2 IDE cleanup 16

[Martin Dalecki]

Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> 
> 
>>1. Indeed the code quality found there is *excellent* nothing comparable
>>    with the messy crude found currently in linux.
>>
> 
> I thought you stated that no one else was using something similar? Or 
> were you refererring to the userland accessible ioctls? I believe 
> FreeBSD-CURRENT might also have something in the works.

I was referring to the userland accessible ioctls going through
HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE - a recent introduction in 2.5.3. And I didn't
found anything comparable in the Apple code.
After looking at the code I can actually assure you that FreeBSD-CURRENT
does not contain anything comparable to this.