Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:35:56 +0100 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: another IDE cleanup: kill duplicated code |
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Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>>BTW.> Since there is no longer any difference about the request head >>handling between IDE and SCSI, what about the idea of moving the whole >>ide interface stuff under the umbrella of SCSI host adapter? This >>would be a true cleanup and make the whole ide-scsi and ide-atapi mess >>go away. IDE is moving fast toward SCSI on the logical level anyway >>and it would make the hwif macro/lookup crap in the ide code go >>magically way! At least this generic device handler search stuff >>should be merged between them (I'm trully tempted to give it a shoot >>this afternoon.) The only thing it could result in, which would maybe >>surprise some would be the fact that the major of his root device >>could just go suddenly away... But hey! What's the heck - we are in >>odd kernel series anyway ;-). >> > >This is an idea I'm toying with for quite a long time already. And I >think this is a good idea as well. I have no more time to spend coding >today, so if you have the afternoon, but I'll definitely find some to >read the diff if you do this change! >
Well could you do me a mall favour of dumping a combined ide cleanup relative to 2.5.4 on me? In contrast to Linus I don't like scattered patches ;-). I will at least give it a deep code look today for the ide-cdrom stuff, becouse it was always annoying to me that the default distribution setup is using the ide interface to my CD-recorder and every single recorder aplication out there is using the scsi interface instead.
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