Re: Question about the ide related ioctl's BLK* in 2.5.7-pre1 kernel

[Roberto Nibali]

>>> AFAICS you only
>>> addressed the i386 arch with that patch, do you want the specific arch
>>> maintainers to clean up their part when your patch is finished?
>>>
>>
>> ?  There's nothing arch-specific in any of this...
>  
> And there is nothing IDE related either. The code removed
> at the time wasn't used!

I see. So the trick is to fix hdparm and tell it not to use ioctl(fd, 
BLKRAGET, arg). But I don't think that the BIO changes introduce a means 
for readahead control/export from/to user space? Or would this be 
something like bio_ioctl(kdev_t, unsigned int, unsigned long), which is 
actually not used anywhere, or the request queue approach used by Andrew 
Morton?

The reason I was confused about the arch was that sparc64, ppc64, 
mips64, s390x and x86_64 still provide a ioctl handler for those ioctl's 
hooking up the the w_long (interestig naming concept btw) function.

Am I completely off the track here, mixing things up?

Best regards,
Roberto Nibali, ratz