Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 13 Jul 2002 16:31:35 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 14:55, Thomas Molina wrote: > > So we'd have a legacy driver called oh say 'ide-cd' and a current one > > called 'ide-scsi'. > > > > How does that change anything ? > > It gives us the possibility to create a "clean" design for modern hardware > while maintaining support for "legacy" hardware. You don't have to carry > around a lot of special cases and distort the design to take into account
You missed the point. We -ALREADY- have ide-cd and ide-scsi. We already do what is described, and in fact Martin and co want to remove that seperation and stuff the gunge into the general atapi layer
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