Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:23:05 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
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On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Please consider deprecating or removing ide-floppy/ide-tape/ide-cdrom > > and treat all ATAPI devices as what they really are -- SCSI over IDE. > > They aren't. > > o Not all ide cdrom devices are ATAPI capable > o Many ide floppy devices can do ATAPI but get it horribly wrong > o ide-tape is -totally- weird and unrelated to st > > Andre did the framework ready to move to a situation where you could open > either the ide-scsi or the ide-cdrom name without module reloading mess. > You'd need to ask our new 2.5 IDE maintainer to finish that work off.
It was deleted, LOL.
What you really need another NEW maintainer or any other replacement.
> For disk it gets much easier. Linus has already said he wants a single > 'disk' device, which once we get 32bit dev_t will be nice. With that we > can finally turn aacraid, megaraid and other 'fake scsi' devices back to > raw block devices without breaking compatibility assumptions, and get more > throughput. > > Alan > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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