Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933708AbYA2SOF (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:14:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759403AbYA2SMR (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:12:17 -0500 Received: from iabervon.org ([66.92.72.58]:47500 "EHLO iabervon.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755959AbYA2SMO (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:12:14 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:12:10 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Barkalow To: Alan Cox cc: Gene Heskett , Mikael Pettersson , Richard Heck , Zan Lynx , Calvin Walton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux ide Mailing list Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24 In-Reply-To: <20080129174455.62742b82@core> Message-ID: References: <200801272122.21823.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200801291132.41657.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <18335.22763.625990.528217@alkaid.it.uu.se> <200801291204.44671.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <20080129174455.62742b82@core> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LNX 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1178 Lines: 24 On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > things in the kernel that refer to SCSI probably should say "storage" (or > > "ATA", really, but that would make the acronyms confusing). > > SCSI is a command protocol. It is what your CD-ROM drive and USB storage > devices talk (albeit with a bit of an accent). Among other things, yes. But SCSI standards also specify electrical interfaces that aren't at all related to the electrical interfaces used by a lot of devices, and a lot of the places the kernel uses the term suggest that it's also talking about the electrical interface (or, at least, connector shape). For example, it's misleading to talk about "SCSI CDROM support" meaning the command protocol when hardly anybody has ever seen a CDROM drive that doesn't use the SCSI command protocol, but most people know about both SCSI-connector and PATA-connector CDROM drives. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- 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/