Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:42:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:42:00 -0400 Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de ([195.20.224.149]:3423 "EHLO moutvdom00.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:41:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:44:50 -0600 (MDT) From: Thunder from the hill X-X-Sender: thunder@hawkeye.luckynet.adm To: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Location: Canberra; Australia MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1139 Lines: 31 Hi, On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > >implemented in Linux (any more), and will never ever be". If we explicitly > >exclude hardware, where do we end?! > > Cleaner drivers, sane layers and an overall better working OS? That's what lots of people thought who are now sitting on their OSes, wondering why the number of users shrinks and shrinks and shrinks... It's IMHO not a really good idea to drop support for decent hardware, especially if the hardware itself might work better than the replacement which keeps up the supported standard. Regards, Thunder -- (Use http://www.ebb.org/ungeek if you can't decode) ------BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Version: 3.12 GCS/E/G/S/AT d- s++:-- a? C++$ ULAVHI++++$ P++$ L++++(+++++)$ E W-$ N--- o? K? w-- O- M V$ PS+ PE- Y- PGP+ t+ 5+ X+ R- !tv b++ DI? !D G e++++ h* r--- y- ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ - 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/