Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:11:36 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
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Użytkownik H. Peter Anvin napisał: > Okay, I have suggested this before, and I haven't quite looked at this > in detail, but I would again like to consider the following, > especially given the changes in 2.5: > > Please consider deprecating or removing ide-floppy/ide-tape/ide-cdrom > and treat all ATAPI devices as what they really are -- SCSI over IDE. > It is a source of no ending confusion that a Linux system will not > write CDs to an IDE CD-writer out of the box, for the simple reason > that cdrecord needs access to the generic packet interface, which is > only available in the nonstandard ide-scsi configuration. > > There really seems to be no decent reason to treat ATAPI devices as > anything else. I understand the ide-* drivers contain some > workarounds for specific devices, but those really should be moved to > their respective SCSI drivers anyway -- after all, manufacturers > readily slap IDE or SCSI interfaces on the same devices anyway. > > Note that this is specific to ATAPI devices. ATA hard drives are > another matter entirely.
Right now the "votes" go like the following:
In favour of the scrap:
1. HPA. 2. Adam J. Richter. 3. Marcin Dalecki (basically due to give up on the idea of gradual unification). ...
Against:
1. Bartłomiej Żołnierkiewcz.
I think we will need a vote from the "great decission maker".
So Linus what's your opinnion please?
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