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SubjectRe: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
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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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