Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 22:08:53 +0200 (CEST)
From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
Message-Id: <200207122008.g6CK8rTc018445@burner.fokus.gmd.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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>Alan Cox wrote:

>> In favour of the scrap:
>> 
>> 1. HPA.
>> 2. Adam J. Richter.
>> 3. Marcin Dalecki (basically due to give up on the idea
>> of gradual unification).

>In other words nobody who understands IDE is for and everyone who 
>understands you can't actually get rid of ide-floppy, tape, cdrom internal
>support and knows about IDE is..


I am not sure if any of your statements before does proove that you have 
knowledge on IDE, you definitely seem to miss important knowledge about SCSI.

I hope that this will not result in missing the chance of converting
to a more useful driver concept.

There are enough other OS that use a common ATAPI/SCSI driver concept and
do not have the problems you vagely name but never really describe.

I believe it's OK to drop support for 10 year old hardware in case this
is no important hardware that _really_ needs continued support (like
e.g. 9 track trapes).

ATA devices that are neither hard disks, nor do support ATAPI decently
are Y 1992 crap - so unless you like to have continued support for your
provate museum, what is the reason that you like to prevent a change
to a more usable driver interface?

J?rg

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