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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> [...]
> Well, TBH I think it's redundant information since libata (the Linux 
> implementation, for our fair readers) already carries the data direction 
>   implicitly.  I cannot see a case where the data direction is not 
> available at all.

I guess my point was "we can do it in Linux by looking outside
the CBD, but hardware implementations or other arbitrary
machines may not have enough info without divine intervention".
Since the scope of Curtis' work was obviously wider than Linux,
I thought I should mention it.

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