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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:35:11 +0200 (SAST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
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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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On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

> 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.

Oh bother! Where does one get the secret Linus decoder ring?

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