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Paul, et al, > So to me the problem is not to make everything work as SCSI, because > that simply isn't true for ide-floppy devices. They *nearly* work, so > you can get kludgy, "good enough for command line gurus" working with > ide-scsi, but there are some funnies. Does it really make sense to have > IDE/ATAPI kludges down in the SCSI tree? If they arn't SCSI, don't treat them like they are. > I much prefer Linus's suggestion of agreeing on the top level API. I > would like to see disks, and removeable media having a single unified > namespace and set of ioctls so that the different user-space programs > don't need to worry about if they are dealing with a SCSI, PPA, > ATAPI-ish, USB, 1394 or whatever comes next drive. Is that work? yes, > but it's also about communication and keeping things in the appropriate > place. Let me hide the horrible things ide-floppy has to do from > user-space, and if that means I/we have to completely re-write the > ioctls etc so be it. Amen to this... It is a very definite need. And if I may add my $0.02 US, a unified IDE/ATA/ATAPI API for Linux will make Linux more likely to take its place on the desktop. As it stands, I have to fiddle with things more than I like to to get my CD-RW to work with both CD-R and Packet Writing. Matthew D. Pitts. - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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