Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Jul 2002 01:17:06 +0200 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
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On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I will violently oppose anything that implies that the IDE layer uses the > SCSI layer normally. No way, Jose. I'm all for scrapping, but the thing > that should be scrapped is ide-scsi. > > The higher layers already have much of what the SCSI layer does, and the > SCSI layer itself is slowly moving in that direction.
Oh, and users will violently oppose when you meddle with drivers and any user-space application stops working because of dropping ide-scsi on the floor. I have been using ide-scsi for ages to drive CD-ROM (mostly) and it's not given me headaches. I like being able to access my CD-ROM as /dev/scd0 regardless if it's SCSI or ATAPI, and if any troubles had arrived on hardware no older than 1997, ide-scsi has solved it for me.
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