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To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: another IDE cleanup: kill duplicated code
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Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

>>BTW.> Since there is no longer any difference about the request head
>>handling between IDE and SCSI, what about the idea of moving the whole
>>ide interface stuff under the umbrella of SCSI host adapter? This
>>would be a true cleanup and make the whole ide-scsi and ide-atapi mess
>>go away. IDE is moving fast toward SCSI on the logical level anyway
>>and it would make the hwif macro/lookup crap in the ide code go
>>magically way! At least this generic device handler search stuff
>>should be merged between them (I'm trully tempted to give it a shoot
>>this afternoon.) The only thing it could result in, which would maybe
>>surprise some would be the fact that the major of his root device
>>could just go suddenly away... But hey! What's the heck - we are in
>>odd kernel series anyway ;-).
>>
>
>This is an idea I'm toying with for quite a long time already. And I
>think this is a good idea as well. I have no more time to spend coding
>today, so if you have the afternoon, but I'll definitely find some to
>read the diff if you do this change!
>

Well could you do me a mall favour of dumping a combined ide cleanup 
relative to 2.5.4 on me?
In contrast to Linus I don't like scattered patches ;-). I will at least 
give it a deep code look today for the
ide-cdrom stuff, becouse it was always annoying to me that the default 
distribution setup
is using the ide interface to my CD-recorder and every single recorder 
aplication out there
is using the scsi interface instead.


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