Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 11:08:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 11:08:09 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust128.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.128]:507 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 11:08:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [2.5] DAC960 From: Alan Cox To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Jens Axboe , Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20020910062030.GL8719@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-7) Date: 15 Sep 2002 16:14:50 +0100 Message-Id: <1032102890.25716.7.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 883 Lines: 17 On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 05:21, Daniel Phillips wrote: > A somewhat curt reply, it could be seen as a brush-off. I believe the > whole story goes something like this: the scsi system is a festering > sore on the whole and eventually needs to be rationalized. But until > that happens, we should basically just keep nursing along the various > drivers that should be using a generic interface, until there really > is a generic interface around worth putting in the effort to port to. DAC960 doesn't present a scsi interface to the higher levels. Its abstraction truely is block based, like i2o_block, like aacraid, like many other cards. - 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/