From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: wrlk@riede.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The survival of ide-scsi in 2.6.x
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:57:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312290457.hBT4vJFj006089@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1072462764.22951.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
> I need ide-scsi to survive. Why? I maintain osst, a driver for
> OnStream tape drives, which need special handling. These drives
> exist in SCSI, ATAPI, USB and IEEE1394 versions.
> One high-level driver, osst, handles all of them, and that's how
> it should be, right? For ATAPI, it relies on ide-scsi.
>
> (By the way, ide-tape contains code for the ATAPI version, the
> DI-30, but that code is old and has serveral known problems -
> I'd like to see it removed - or at least deprecated - I will do
> that myself later if people want me to.)
Based on my expirience with ide-tape, I would rather have it
killed instead. One neat trick to appease enemies of ide-scsi
might be to rename it into ide-scsi into ide-tape-bis.
Might even add DSC bit handling... But the ide-tape is too
ugly to live for sure.
-- Pete
next parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-29 4:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.1072462764.22951.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-12-29 4:57 ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2003-12-29 13:07 ` Willem Riede
2004-01-05 22:01 Mikael Pettersson
2004-01-05 22:33 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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2004-01-05 22:00 Mikael Pettersson
2004-01-07 22:22 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-30 18:44 James Bottomley
2003-12-30 22:18 ` Willem Riede
2004-01-03 19:08 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-28 13:24 ` Willem Riede
2004-01-30 22:56 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-31 0:48 ` Willem Riede
2003-12-26 18:12 Willem Riede
2003-12-27 2:09 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-27 12:43 ` Stef van der Made
[not found] ` <20031227131724.GG1277@linnie.riede.org>
2003-12-28 21:45 ` Stef van der Made
2004-01-03 14:11 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-03 14:18 ` Bill Davidsen
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