Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 09:15:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 09:15:09 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-5-cust12.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.121.12]:21742 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 09:14:53 -0400 Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 From: Alan Cox To: jbradford@dial.pipex.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, thunder@ngforever.de, schilling@fokus.gmd.de In-Reply-To: <200207130636.HAA00666@darkstar.example.net> References: <200207130636.HAA00666@darkstar.example.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 13 Jul 2002 15:25:28 +0100 Message-Id: <1026570328.9958.83.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 982 Lines: 22 On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 07:36, jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote: > > Because we can't tell Linux users "your (once favorite) CD-ROM is not > > implemented in Linux (any more), and will never ever be". If we explicitly > > exclude hardware, where do we end?! > > Like other mainstream operating systems :-) > > One thing that occurs to me, but that I don't necessarily think is a good idea, > is that for a long time we had "old" IDE code and "new" IDE code in the kernel, > and there is no reason why we couldn't do a similar thing, (I.E. have > a "legacy devices will work" foo driver, and "legacy devices might So we'd have a legacy driver called oh say 'ide-cd' and a current one called 'ide-scsi'. How does that change anything ? - 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/