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From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
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Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:36:34 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, thunder@ngforever.de, schilling@fokus.gmd.de
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> > 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

... if only I could get that 'Hello World' code debugged I'd be well on my way, eh?  :-)
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