Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:54:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:53:55 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:29963 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:53:42 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6-pre2 IDE cleanup 16 To: vojtech@suse.cz (Vojtech Pavlik) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 01:08:38 +0000 (GMT) Cc: arjanv@redhat.com (Arjan van de Ven), dalecki@evision-ventures.com (Martin Dalecki), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020305221933.A405@ucw.cz> from "Vojtech Pavlik" at Mar 05, 2002 10:19:33 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Note that taskfiles are not being removed from IDE. Just direct (and > parsed and filtered) interface to userspace. Does the scsi midlayer > export the SCBs directly to userspace? Yes. And whats more the scsi generic layer has a hell of a lot less ioctls than IDE because of that. With something like scsi enclosure, scsi smart, scsi scanners its a godsend to be able to just say "Ok OS take a hike, I wish to chat with this device exactly as I damn well please". [Reminds me - anyone got any Linux enclosure monitoring code ?] - 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/