Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:19:33 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6-pre2 IDE cleanup 16 |
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On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:37:58AM +0000, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Martin Dalecki wrote: > > > - Disable configuration of the task file stuff. It is going to go away > > and will be replaced by a truly abstract interface based on > > functionality and *not* direct mess-up of hardware. > > Can we also expect a patch to remove the scb's from the scsi midlayer > from you ? > I mean, if a standard specifies a nice *common* command packet format > I'd expect the midlayer > to create such packets. Taskfile is exactly that... why removing it ?
Note that taskfiles are not being removed from IDE. Just direct (and parsed and filtered) interface to userspace. Does the scsi midlayer export the SCBs directly to userspace?
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