Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:18:44 -0400 | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.22] simple ide-tape.c and ide-floppy.c cleanup |
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>[...] > To be honest - why keep ide-[cd,floppy,tape] when they can be almost > completely replaced with ide-scsi?
James Bottomley was going to take care of this, so I did not even bother with ide-tape cleanups in 2.5. Good riddance for that crap.
Note though, ide-tape is not anywhere near semantically to the ide-scsi+st, because of its "sophisticated" (e.g. utterly broken) internal pipeline. It does a lot of work underneath the /dev boundary. Apparently, the author had a bad case of streaming stoppages on his 386, so instead of fixing the root cause he wrote the monster we have today. Getting rid of ide-tape may cause problems on 386's. But then again, perhaps not.
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