Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 May 2003 09:21:40 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [RFR] a new SCSI driver |
| |
john@grabjohn.com wrote: >>Serial ATA is looming quickly on the horizon. Both device and host >>controller SATA implementations really lend themselves to behaviors >>that have existed in SCSI for a while. SATA even defines use of SCSI >>Enclosure Services. > > > Thinking ahead, by the 2.8 timescale, PATA could well be legacy hardware > which could be supported only by an 'old' IDE driver, much like we already > have at the moment - I.E. we could remove the current 'old' IDE driver > sometime during the 2.7 timescale, and support SATA only via the SCSI layer. > > This would save having any more than the minimum SATA code going in to the > existing IDE driver, and consolidate work in the future.
I'm content to let evolution make these decisions... predicting into the future isn't the best skill a technologist has :)
Jeff
- 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/
| |