Tejun Heo wrote:
of the time. I think HDIO_GET_IDENTITY's meaning is something like "give me IDENTIFY page of the device as seen by the driver" and doesn't really matter as long as it can be used to get general idea about the device.
The correct/original meaning of that ioctl was "boot time IDENTIFY" data. As Alan said, it later got bastardized by various people at some point. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
