On 1/7/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Manish Regmi wrote: > Hi all, > First of all sorry for bringing this topic again. > As discussed in --> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/5/47 > The ATA Streaming feature set is not necessary to be in Kernel Space > (IDE driver). There is a suggestion creating user space library. > > But how is the user space apps going to use the commands like READ > STREAM DMA EXT (0x2A). Shouldn't there be some support in kernel which > setups up PRD tables and all. > It doesn't seem to be possible.... is it?If you pass SG_IO addresses, they become DMA scatter/gather tables. Jeff
Thank you for your answer. But what about PATA disks. Is that ioctl supported in PATA disk? I tried to give IDENTIFY command but it failed with invalid argument. Regards Manish Regmi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
