Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:01:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:01:36 -0400 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:43652 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:01:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 20:03:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Eduard Bloch cc: LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.22] simple ide-tape.c and ide-floppy.c cleanup In-Reply-To: <20020703155113.GA26299@zombie.inka.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1058 Lines: 29 On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Eduard Bloch wrote: > 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. THE PLAN is to have generic ATAPI driver and generic packet command driver (ATAPI and SCSI). :-) -- Bartlomiej - 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/