Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751378AbWBJV1V (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:27:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751386AbWBJV1V (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:27:21 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:57485 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751378AbWBJV1T (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:27:19 -0500 Message-ID: <43ED05E2.9000403@tmr.com> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:30:10 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Davis , Linux Kernel mailing List Subject: Re: Let's get rid of ide-scsi References: <20060210002148.37683.qmail@web50201.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060210002148.37683.qmail@web50201.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 829 Lines: 27 Alex Davis wrote: > I think we should get rid of ide-scsi. > > Reasons: > 1) It's broken. > 2) It's unmaintained. > 3) It's unneeded. > > I'll submit a patch if people agree. People don't agree, could we not have another war like cdrecord? Please? Go back and read the old posts, particularly discussing tape, MO drives, and some ide-floppy devices. It's there, it's maintained as needed, and it works far better than the alternatives for some devices. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - 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/