Re: Question about the ide related ioctl's BLK* in 2.5.7-pre1 kernel

Martin Dalecki (dalecki@evision-ventures.com)
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:12:14 +0100

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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Roberto Nibali wrote:
>
>>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.

This is WRONG. What I did here was just removal of unused code.
They got obsoleted by the BIO infrastructure changes.

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