Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 23:49:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 23:49:20 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:10255 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 23:49:12 -0500 Message-ID: <3C8D88B4.7060508@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 23:48:52 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020214 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: andersen@codepoet.org CC: "J. Dow" , Linus Torvalds , LKML Subject: Re: [patch] My AMD IDE driver, v2.7 In-Reply-To: <3C8D667F.5040208@mandrakesoft.com> <01a401c1c970$aeb74110$1125a8c0@wednesday> <3C8D71AC.3080305@mandrakesoft.com> <20020312044112.GA18857@codepoet.org> 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 Erik Andersen wrote: >But the minute such a layer is in place, people will begin going >straight to the sub-low-level raw device layers so they can use >all the exciting new extended features of their XP370000 quantum >storage array which needs the special frob-electrons command to >make it work... > SCSI generic has existed for a while now :) So this is really just catching up. And WRT the filtering stuff, people are free to use the raw cmd without any filtering at all. Your choice. If you mean bit-banging, see my reply to Oliver (Olivier?). Anyway, Linus's current proposal seems both sane and flexible enough. And the basic infrastructure already exists to shove raw commands onto the request queue. Jeff - 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/