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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:52:59 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> I would be happy to hear about concepts. Currently it looks as if at
> least some people like to keep everything as it is. This is not a
> conceptional OS but a grown structure. If you like to keep code
> maintainable for a long time, you need to clean up the thicket from time
> to time.

I couldn't agree more.  Now, why do you oppose cleaning up
the "use scsi as everyone's mid layer" hack and putting a
better generic abstraction in place ?

regards,

Rik
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