Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 06:52:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 06:52:45 -0500 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:30732 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 06:52:30 -0500 Message-ID: <3C84B145.90201@evision-ventures.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 12:51:33 +0100 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arjanv@redhat.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6-pre2 IDE cleanup 16 In-Reply-To: <3C84A34E.6060708@evision-ventures.com> <3C84AE16.A7F1ECCA@redhat.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 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Martin Dalecki wrote: > > >>- Disable configuration of the task file stuff. It is going to go away >> and will be replaced by a truly abstract interface based on >> functionality and *not* direct mess-up of hardware. >> > > Can we also expect a patch to remove the scb's from the scsi midlayer > from you ? > I mean, if a standard specifies a nice *common* command packet format > I'd expect the midlayer > to create such packets. Taskfile is exactly that... why removing it ? Show me a usage of it! No please no abstract telling how usufull it *could* be. Look at the excessive implementation code. Look at the ATA standard and compare this to SCSI. - 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/