Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 May 2003 13:59:26 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver |
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Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, May 26 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>>What does the block layer need, that it doesn't have now? >> >>Exactly. I'd _love_ for people to really think about this. > > > In discussion with Jeff, it seems most of what he wants is already > there. He just doesn't know it yet :-)
Another important point is time.
I continue to agree that a native block driver is the best direction.
But with 2.6.0 looming, I think it's best to evolve my ATA driver to be a native block driver from a scsi one. Not start out as a native driver. That's significant pre-2.6 churn.
Or, it lives out-of-tree until 2.7 and people with SATA hardware have to go out-of-tree for their driver for months and months, until the working driver is deemed sufficiently native :) In the meantime, distros wanting working SATA will just ship the SCSI driver as-is. :(
Jeff
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