On Tue, Mar 21 2006, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 14:38 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Strongly agreed. ISTR JamesB had some concrete thoughts in that > > direction, but they never made it beyond an IRC channel and/or a few > > emails. > > Actually, I had a patch for it ... but it never really went anywhere. > The argument being that the machines which would actually need it didn't > use IDE anyway ... Do <insert random device here> really never have segment or boundary restrictions outside of IDE? Seems to me that supporting that would be the conservative and sane thing to do. -- Jens Axboe - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
