Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:14:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:14:21 -0400 Received: from krusty.dt.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:32520 "EHLO mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:14:21 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 01:17:06 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 Message-ID: <20020712231705.GA19903@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3D2EC778.7000203@evision-ventures.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1061 Lines: 23 On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I will violently oppose anything that implies that the IDE layer uses the > SCSI layer normally. No way, Jose. I'm all for scrapping, but the thing > that should be scrapped is ide-scsi. > > The higher layers already have much of what the SCSI layer does, and the > SCSI layer itself is slowly moving in that direction. Oh, and users will violently oppose when you meddle with drivers and any user-space application stops working because of dropping ide-scsi on the floor. I have been using ide-scsi for ages to drive CD-ROM (mostly) and it's not given me headaches. I like being able to access my CD-ROM as /dev/scd0 regardless if it's SCSI or ATAPI, and if any troubles had arrived on hardware no older than 1997, ide-scsi has solved it for me. -- Matthias Andree - 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/