Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 May 2003 13:54:38 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver |
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Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, May 26 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>>What does the block layer need, that it doesn't have now? >> >>Exactly. I'd _love_ for people to really think about this. > > > In discussion with Jeff, it seems most of what he wants is already > there. He just doesn't know it yet :-)
hehe. Here's a salient point:
native block drivers are typically used in one of two ways: creating a whole subsystem (ide, scsi), or servicing a single host (dac960).
I am doing the first: creating a whole subsystem. The infrastructure involved in that, over and above what block already provides, is that part I dread coding.
If I am to code that, I want to do so ONCE. And that means a bus-agnostic /dev/{disk,cdrom,tape}. Not /dev/{ad,acd,at,ag}.
Jeff
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