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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:55:25 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
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Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
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Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>>
>> Then *please* make a *compatible* interface available to user space. 
>> This certainly can be done; the parallel port IDE interface stuff had 
>> exactly such an interface (/dev/pg*) -- we could have a /dev/hg* 
>> interface presumably.  That is an acceptable solution. 
> 
> But Linus is wanting exactly that! As far as I understand, Linus would 
> like a generic interface sitting at the higher layers, and that is used 
> by the ide/atapi/scsi layers. I read this as implying that the user 
> space interface will also be only one. It will talk to the higher 
> layers, the lower layers can then do all the hw specific magic.
> 

That's fine with me.

	-hpa


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