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Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 15:07, jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:

> Both of the existing drivers would become the legacy driver, and a new one would be forked from the legacy code, which abstracts the physical interface altogether.  Eventually, we're going to have IDE, ATAPI (I.E. mostly non-disk IDE devices), SCSI, SASI(maybe :-)), USB, FireWire, Bluetooth, etc.  The number of interfaces is just going to grow and grow.

I look forward to seeing your patches

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