Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:01:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:00:59 -0400 Received: from mailhub.fokus.gmd.de ([193.174.154.14]:41679 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.gmd.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:00:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:02:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Joerg Schilling Message-Id: <200207161102.g6GB21JB021281@burner.fokus.gmd.de> To: riel@conectiva.com.br, schilling@fokus.gmd.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@w.ods.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: 1256 Lines: 29 >From: Rik van Riel >> 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 ? Why do you try to invert my postings? I definitely like to see a better overall solution and I am talking about it the same way during the last 4 years. Why should I change my mind if Linux did not change in between? 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/