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Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 13:59:26 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver
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Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, May 26 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>>>What does the block layer need, that it doesn't have now?
>>
>>Exactly. I'd _love_ for people to really think about this.
> 
> 
> In discussion with Jeff, it seems most of what he wants is already
> there. He just doesn't know it yet :-)


Another important point is time.

I continue to agree that a native block driver is the best direction.

But with 2.6.0 looming, I think it's best to evolve my ATA driver to be 
a native block driver from a scsi one.   Not start out as a native 
driver.  That's significant pre-2.6 churn.

Or, it lives out-of-tree until 2.7 and people with SATA hardware have to 
go out-of-tree for their driver for months and months, until the working 
driver is deemed sufficiently native :)  In the meantime, distros 
wanting working SATA will just ship the SCSI driver as-is.  :(

	Jeff


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