From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Willem Riede <wrlk@riede.org>
Cc: Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com>,
Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux tape drivers
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:39:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070404133919.ebcd0ddc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <150283e90704041222v1d8554b6lcb5a6771d4a031b4@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:22:35 -0700
"Willem Riede" <wrlk@riede.org> wrote:
> On 4/4/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:26:14 +0200 Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm all in favor of deprecating ide-tape if ide-scsi is a viable alternative,
> >
> > ow. ide-scsi is in very bad shape and nobody is maintaining it or fixing
> > bugs in it or anything. The only reason we retain ide-scsi at all is, err,
> > because some tape drives need it.
> >
> > If we have no alternative to using ide-scsi, and if the tape controllers in
> > question are not some terribly obscure things which nobody would seriously
> > use then we have a bit of a problem. I don't know of anyone who we can
> > turn to to get anything done in ide-scsi.
>
> Andrew,
>
> Kai suggests that libata should be able to take over from ide-scsi.
> Do you concur?
That would be very nice if we can make it happen. I don't know how close
we are to that, but the fine folks on linux-ide might be able tell us.
> That may be a better way forward than ide-scsi.
> I know, because I had a hard enough time with it when I needed
> to fix it so it worked for osst, at least.
>
> Regards, Willem Riede.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200704031508.37222.kern@sibbald.com>
2007-04-03 20:39 ` Linux tape drivers Andrew Morton
2007-04-03 21:30 ` Kern Sibbald
2007-04-03 21:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-03 22:15 ` James Bottomley
2007-04-04 3:00 ` Willem Riede
2007-04-04 14:26 ` Kern Sibbald
2007-04-04 18:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 19:21 ` Kern Sibbald
2007-04-04 20:37 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 19:22 ` Willem Riede
2007-04-04 20:39 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-04-04 21:31 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-04-04 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 18:46 ` Kai Makisara
2007-04-04 19:50 ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-04-04 20:58 ` Kern Sibbald
2007-04-04 21:54 ` Kai Makisara
2007-04-05 8:32 ` Kern Sibbald
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