Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 12:13:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 12:13:08 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-039-078.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.39.78]:14465 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 12:13:07 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [2.5] DAC960 Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 18:20:09 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Jens Axboe , Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References:

<1032102890.25716.7.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1032102890.25716.7.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1028 Lines: 22 On Sunday 15 September 2002 17:14, Alan Cox wrote: > 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. Yup, brainlock, I knew that. Just bracketing the target... -- Daniel - 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/