Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:59:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:59:22 -0400 Received: from mailhub.fokus.gmd.de ([193.174.154.14]:37263 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.gmd.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:59:21 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 16:00:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Joerg Schilling Message-Id: <200207141400.g6EE0brJ019110@burner.fokus.gmd.de> To: root@chaos.analogic.com, schilling@fokus.gmd.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1088 Lines: 25 >From root@chaos.analogic.com Fri Jul 12 22:18:47 2002 >As much as I hate IDE, IDE isn't going away. All my systems use SCSI >so on machines that have CD/ROMS, I use your libraries and your tools. >Maybe somebody should make CD/ROM code that directly talks to IDE via >/dev/hdwhatever, instead of expecting you to modify your code that >has worked so well for so long. This would be a really bad idea. Such a change would force me to add a 6th (and unneeded) new interface. Why? What problem would be solved if you did introduce such an interface? J?rg EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 schilling@fokus.gmd.de (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix - 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/