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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Subject: Re: [2.5] DAC960
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:40:25 +0200
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On Wednesday 18 September 2002 18:17, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > > Linus indicated at the Kernel Summit that he'd like to see a
> > > > cleaned-up scsi midlayer used as framework for *all* disk IO,
> > > > including IDE.  Obviously, what with IDE transitions and whatnot, we
> > > > are far from being ready to attempt that, so see "nursing along"
> > > > above.  There's no longer any chance that a generic disk midlayer is
> > > > going to happen in this cycle, as far as I can see.  Still, anybody
> > > > who is interested would do well by studing the issues, and fixing
> > > > broken drivers certainly qualifies as a way to come up to speed.
> > > > First of all, I believe Linus' plan is to push more functionality into
> > > the block layer.
> >
> > I distinctly heard him say he wanted the scsi mid layer repurposed as
> > an interface for all disks.  Maybe he changed his mind?
> 
> I don't recall hearing this.  I remember his agreeing with the idea of 
> slimming down the SCSI mid layer, which does rather contradict the use SCSI 
> for everything approach.

> After the Kernel Summit, there was quite a long thread on l-k with Joerg 
> Schilling on exactly this issue.

Subject line "IDE/ATAPI in 2.5"?

> The upshot of which was I clearly said we 
> weren't going to go the SCSI is everything route.  Unless there's any reason 
> to change course, I think that's the current plan.

Given that Halloween is 6 weeks away, I don't doubt you.

-- 
Daniel
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