Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271287AbTHHLUE (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 07:20:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271295AbTHHLUE (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 07:20:04 -0400 Received: from meryl.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.42]:4497 "EHLO meryl.it.uu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271287AbTHHLUA (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 07:20:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:19:58 +0200 (MEST) Message-Id: <200308081119.h78BJwKP015664@harpo.it.uu.se> From: Mikael Pettersson To: B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl Subject: Re: ide-tape broken (was Re: [PATCH] use ide-identify.h, fix endian bug) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 800 Lines: 22 On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 02:10:19 +0200 (MET DST), Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >> I'd rather use ide-scsi+st or a new clean ATAPI tape driver >> than ide-tape.c. (I've studied ide-tape.c. It reeks of poor > >"new clean ATAPI tape drive" == the one yet to be written? Correct. >> 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. ;-) Only as a generic coder trying to fix it, and as a user looking at other people's bug reports. /Mikael - 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/