Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Aug 2002 16:06:46 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: IDE? IDE-TNG driver |
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On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > >ide_ioctl(fd, HDIO_SET_IDE_SCSI, bool) > > Seems fine to me... > > >Where bool does the subdriver switch. > >Just that ioctl's are being blasted and people using are frowned upon. > > ? so how is cdrecord (or whatever) supposed to do its stuff -- is it ioctl() > -> fcntl()? If so, I suppose that's ok, but the basic premise still exists, > surely? > > >This was a feature Alan Cox poked me for to try and move away from how > >modules are basically an all or nothing grab-all. > > I don't think modules are the answer to any of this: > a) some people want basically module-less kernels
This is designed to work regardless.
/dev/hdc == ide-cd builtin insmod ide-scsi
ide_ioctl(fd, HDIO_SET_IDE_SCSI, bool)
converts /dev/hdc == ide-cd builtin to ide-scsi(add-in-module).
> b) in some environments, you need to be able to select the IO mechanism > without the ability to select the module to load.
See above, I think it solves the problem. Once ide-scsi is added to the ide_module link list it is as good as built-in.
> anyway... > > <slightly confused by it all>
Me too, because I do not know the direction goal so I am doing the very best I can. What I really need is an active development team.
Before me:
Mark Lord, Gadi Oxman, Eric Anderson worked well.
ML ide-disk and ide.c global. GO ide-floppy, ide-tape, ide-scsi EA ide-cd
Anyways that was long before transport layer w/ all the hardware issues began to dominate things.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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