Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:51:13 +0200
From: Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2.5.22] simple ide-tape.c and ide-floppy.c cleanup
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Why not another way round? Just make the ide-scsi driver be prefered,
and hack ide-scsi a bit to simulate the cdrom and adv.floppy devices
that are expected as /dev/hd* by some user's configuration?

To be honest - why keep ide-[cd,floppy,tape] when they can be almost
completely replaced with ide-scsi? I know about only few cdrom devices
that are broken (== not ATAPI compliant) but can be used with
workarounds in the current ide-cd driver. OTOH many users do already
need ide-scsi to access cd recorders and similar hardware, so they would
benefit much more from having ide-scsi as default than few users of
broken "atapi" drives.

Other operating systems did switch to constitent (scsi-based) way of
accessing all kinds of removable media drivers. Why does Linux have to
keep a kludge, written years ago without having a good concept?

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
-- 
Ich glaube nicht, da? man dieses St?ck in Software umgesetzte Schei?e ?ber-
haupt mieser machen kann, als es sowieso schon ist. Das d?rfte das einzige
Programm sein, das vom Verhalten und seinen Anwendern her schlimmer als XP
auf einem Amiga ist. - Manuel Richardt in ka.talk ueber Outlook Express

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