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Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Thomas Molina <tmolina@cox.net>
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On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 14:55, Thomas Molina wrote:
> > So we'd have a legacy driver called oh say 'ide-cd' and a current one
> > called 'ide-scsi'.
> > 
> > How does that change anything ?
> 
> It gives us the possibility to create a "clean" design for modern hardware 
> while maintaining support for "legacy" hardware.  You don't have to carry 
> around a lot of special cases and distort the design to take into account 

You missed the point. We -ALREADY- have ide-cd and ide-scsi. We already
do what is described, and in fact Martin and co want to remove that
seperation and stuff the gunge into the general atapi layer

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