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Andi Kleen wrote: > My personal wish list feature would be a little forwarder driver > to forward /dev/hd* to /dev/sd* for this; then old IDE could be > disabled without risking breaking old root file systems. That's on the long-term TODO list. libata is moving towards making libata-scsi an optional module (will always be around for ATAPI, and for compat with current ATA), and driving ATA disks as a native block driver, rather than having SCSI do the work for us. libata's qc_issue/qc_complete high level API and internal modularity were designed to make this possible. It is easy to see in the current code how libata-scsi is merely a user of the qc_issue/qc_complete API, with all the low-level details isolated away from that module. Addendum: Remember too, /dev/hdX is not just a major/minor pair, but a userspace interface, complete with expected ioctl support. Jeff - 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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