bitkeeper / IDE cleanup

From [email protected] Wed Mar 6 13:53:24 2002

> I very much distrust the possibility of defining any abstract interface. > For special purpose things one just wants to send certain commands and > data to the disk, and user space knows which commands and what data, > and the kernel doesn't, so has to allow user space access.

Well then please answer the following:
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Actually Alan Cox convinced me that it still makes sense to have a IOCTL_ATA_DRIVE_TAKE_ME_HARD_FROM_THE_REAR, but ...

Aha, so you are convinced. That is what I hoped to achieve.

Andries