Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2003 02:46:51 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver |
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JG,
This is the right move after months of debating ideas. Migrating the contents of ./drivers/ide/pci to scsi is reasonable too. This will allow the legacy drivers to die.
Taskfile came to late to be really useful, it is now best used as a model to tackle FIS/FPDMA mapping for SATA II.
Linus, my professional opinion is to follow Jeff's direction for 2.5/2.6. This will allow Linux to push open source to the hardware vendors. There are several bastardized scsi-ide drivers in ./scsi.
pci2000.c,h :: pci2220i.c,h :: psi240i.c,h + psi_*.h :: eata*
ATAPI is nothing more than Bastardized SCSI beaten with an ugly stick.
Packet-Taskfile is more than painful, and I am not in the fighting mood.
Cheers,
Andre
On Mon, 26 May 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Just to echo some comments I said in private, this driver is _not_ > a replacement for drivers/ide. This is not, and has never been, > the intention. In fact, I need drivers/ide's continued existence, > so that I may have fewer boundaries on future development. > > Even though ATAPI support doesn't exist and error handling is > primitive, this driver has been extensively tested locally and I feel > is ready for a full and public kernel developer assault :) > > James ok'd sending this... I'll be sending "un-hack scsi headers" patch > through him via his scsi-misc-2.5 tree. > > > > > Linus, please do a > > bk pull bk://kernel.bkbits.net/jgarzik/scsi-2.5 > > Others may download the patch from > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.5/2.5.69-bk18-scsi1.patch.bz2 > > This will update the following files: > > drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 27 > drivers/scsi/Makefile | 1 > drivers/scsi/ata_piix.c | 322 ++++++ > drivers/scsi/libata.c | 2247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/ata.h | 485 ++++++++++ > 5 files changed, 3082 insertions(+) > > through these ChangeSets: > > <jgarzik@redhat.com> (03/05/26 1.1357) > [scsi ata] make PATA config option actually do something useful > > <jgarzik@redhat.com> (03/05/26 1.1356) > [scsi ata] include hacks, b/c scsi headers not in include/linux > > <jgarzik@redhat.com> (03/05/26 1.1355) > [scsi] add ATA driver > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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