Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Feb 2006 21:39:04 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: CD writing - related question |
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On Thu, Feb 02 2006, Bill Davidsen wrote: > The question is still why not make all devices look like SCSI, and use
Because it's a really bad idea? Right now we have a few storage drivers that don't use SCSI, that number will increase in the future.
The fact that lots of drivers use the SCSI stack even if they didn't have to is mainly because the SCSI layer had all those handy features that they all needed. During 2.5 and 2.6 we moved a lot of that functionality transparently to the block layer instead. As we complete that work, it would be just as easy to write a native block driver instead of a SCSI LLD. libata is one such example.
-- Jens Axboe
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