Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271144AbTHHKzs (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 06:55:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271189AbTHHKzs (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 06:55:48 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:10631 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271144AbTHHKzr (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 06:55:47 -0400 Subject: Re: ide-tape broken (was Re: [PATCH] use ide-identify.h, fix endian bug) From: Alan Cox To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Mikael Pettersson , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1060339916.4933.1.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 08 Aug 2003 11:51:56 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 776 Lines: 19 On Gwe, 2003-08-08 at 01:10, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > "new clean ATAPI tape drive" == the one yet to be written? > > > coding style, kludges for Onstream, and an over-engineered > > buffering scheme. And it's known to have problems with DMA.) > > So you are familiar with the code, cool. ;-) > > I will try to simplify ide-tape.c as much as possible. A starting point might actually be cp ide-tape.c ide-tape-ontrack.c and then zap the conditional mess in both. Thats roughly how scsi handles it all with st and osst - 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/