Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:08:52 +0200 (CEST) | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
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>From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> >On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> I would be happy to hear about concepts. Currently it looks as if at >> least some people like to keep everything as it is. This is not a >> conceptional OS but a grown structure. If you like to keep code >> maintainable for a long time, you need to clean up the thicket from time >> to time.
>I couldn't agree more. Now, why do you oppose cleaning up >the "use scsi as everyone's mid layer" hack and putting a >better generic abstraction in place ?
I never said this.
I would like to see a integrated aproach where the mid level prevents something like ide-cd to access ATAPI drives. In this case, there is a unique address space and generic SCSI transport systems like libscg will be able to work in a way that is easy to understand by outsiders and does not force me to add one workaround after the other.
Jörg
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