Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:41:12 -0700 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: [patch] My AMD IDE driver, v2.7 |
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On Mon Mar 11, 2002 at 10:10:36PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 1) There should be a raw device command interface (not ATA or SCSI specific)
Hmm. If such a generic low-level raw device layer were to be implemented (presumably as the foundation for the block layer), I expect the interface would be somthing like the cdrom layer, and would abstract out all the normal things that raw mass-storage devices can do.
But the minute such a layer is in place, people will begin going straight to the sub-low-level raw device layers so they can use all the exciting new extended features of their XP370000 quantum storage array which needs the special frob-electrons command to make it work...
-Erik
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