Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Feb 2002 00:07:02 +0100 | From | Paul Bristow <> | Subject | Align removeable media behaviour? |
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During the 2.5 cycle, I see we are going to remove ide-scsi. This means Iomega are going to have to accept that ide-floppy works for ATAPI Zip/PocketZip drives and they may wish to consider not trying to force people to use ide-scsi any more. I guess they will want some IOCTLs implemented to do this.
Rather than add yet more code to ide-floppy, (yes I know it needs cleaning - if I ever get a 2.5.x to compile I may be able to do so), should we consider aligning the behaviour of all removeable devices? I know Jens is working on the ATAPI CD burning and MO drives, but we have parallel port drives, USB, Firewire, ATAPI, SCSI, floppy and god knows what else out there, all in different subsystems with different maintainers. Should we attempt to have a common set of IOCTLs for ll format, lock, unlock, eject, validate, grok_partitions etc etc?
It might be a lot easier for userland utilities to have a set of expected behaviours and supported IOCTLs from the drivers.
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Paul Bristow
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