linux-kernel - Re: IDE S.M.A.R.T. ioctl errors

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Message-ID: <488E405E.4010300@rtr.ca>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:55:42 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc:	petkovbb@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE S.M.A.R.T. ioctl errors

If we're going to continue to keep drivers/ide on life-support,
then perhaps one should just add SG_IO::ATA_16 support into it
and leave the "legacy" ioctls alone.

I've done this for linux-2.2.xx (really!), and the patch was rather
tiny indeed -- and that custom kernel now supports all of the fancy
ioctl() needs of hdparm-8.9 and smartctl.

Perhaps a similar patch for drivers/ide ?

Here's my 2.2.xx hack for perusal:
 http://empeg-hijack.sourceforge.net/patches/relative/v489-v490.patch.gz

It won't work on current kernels, of course, but perhaps something similar would.

Cheers
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