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On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, John Bradford wrote: > Quote from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>: > > > ide-scsi has always been broken. You should not use it, and indeed there > > was never any good reason for it existing AT ALL. But because of a broken > > interface to cdrecord, cdrecord historically only wanted to touch SCSI > > devices. Ergo, a silly emulation layer that wasn't really worth it. > > Hmmm, but ide-scsi is used for a lot more than cd recorders these > days. Alan mentioned 'crazy' SATA devices back in April. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105000779411632&w=2 I mentioned ide tapes and ZIP drives, Linus didn't mention how one gets around those. > (Not that I'm suggesting that it is particularly sane to deal with an > SATA connected printer by presenting it as a SCSI device, but I just > can't see how ide-scsi could successfully be removed now :-( ) And I don't see the joy of doing so. Unless someone wants to write new versions of all the SCSI software out in use, a lot of functionality is lost. In the long run it might have been better to simply fix or rewrite ide-scsi and stop using the ide interface, becuase disk manufacturers certainly aren't going to stop making scsi and it needs to be supported anyway. I guess Doug Gilbert is doing other things now, I would have expected at least an opinion out of him ;-) -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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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