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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 09:31:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Thomas Molina <tmolina@cox.net>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
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On 13 Jul 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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

I thought part of the issue was a redesign of the scsi mid-layer.  I was 
reacting to the scenario where support for older hardware was removed.  

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