On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 04:22:39 +1100, Nick Piggin said:
> We probably wouldn't want to go that far as you obviously can
> only merge reads with reads and writes with writes, a flag would
> be fine. We have to get the basics working first though ;)

"obviously can only"?  Admittedly, merging reads and writes is a lot
trickier, and probably "too hairy to bother", but I'm not aware of a
fundamental "cant" that applies across IDE/SCSI/USB/1394/fiberchannel/etc.
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				Valdis Kletnieks
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				Virginia Tech