Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:49:33 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> Which unfortunately leads us back to one of the early questions. > > If ATAPI is some sort of SCSI [command set] over ATA, and ide-cd can be used > without the "Big Bad" SCSI layer (CONFIG_SCSI), don't we have redundant code > floating around?
CONFIG_SCSI???
Why not using fully dynamical loadable kernel modules as done with Solaris since 1992? Since that time nobody cares because what you need is auto-loaded on demand and there is absolutely no need for a manual configuration.
BTW: Introducing an orthogonal SCSI based implementation would save a lot of code. The model currently used on Linux is duplicating a lot of unneeded code in target drivers and the SCSI glue code is only a few KB (less than 30k on Solaris).
Jörg
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