Mark Lord wrote:
salimmu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Attach is a patch that adds translation of scsi WRITE_BUFFER to
ATA_DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE command.\
..
Do we really need or want this extra code in-kernel?
This type of thing is already doable from user-space with SG_IO + ATA_16.
Eg. hdparm --fwdownload
If it can be done in userspace, I don't see much reason to add emulation
in libata-scsi.c...
Jeff
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