Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:36:14 -0500 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: Let's get rid of ide-scsi |
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Alex Davis wrote: > I think we should get rid of ide-scsi. > > Reasons: > 1) It's broken. > 2) It's unmaintained. > 3) It's unneeded. > > I'll submit a patch if people agree. > > I code, therefore I am
I personally do not agree with this. I worked on at boot disk(floppy) which contained the kernel and modules to find a cdrom (or usb disk) and use it as my 2nd stage. If I had to use ide-cd, I would not beable to do my first stage loader on a single floppy (I support ide and scsi cdroms via sr-mod).
ide-cd.ko is > than sr-mod.ko + ide-scsi.ko
I am aware that scsi_mod.ko is larger than those 3 combined and I still need it regardless for usb.
My personal vote would be to drop the entire ide subsystem which would thus drop ide-scsi. The SCSI layer has been a general block device layer for more than true scsi devices. USB, Firewire, and SATA use the scsi layer. And as I understand it, libata is starting to handle PATA devices. Once it can handle PATA fine, the ide code would pretty much be useless.
I am also against the seperate USB block layer, I personally saw no use in it.
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