From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
Dan No? <dpn@isomerica.net>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
osst@riede.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 14:41:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081209214128.GT25548@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081206230227.07b00e2f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 11:02:27PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Oh, yes. SCSI emulation is just what Linux embedded world is asking
> > for...
>
> Well ATAPI is SCSI emulation (its a sort of pidgin SCSI admittedly).
I'm told (by people who work with embedded people) that first the
customer says "Oh, I don't need the block layer, I just need MTD", so
they disable CONFIG_BLOCK, then the customer says "Oh, I need to support
USB storage", so they re-enable CONFIG_BLOCK, add CONFIG_SCSI and scsi
disk support and usb-storage.
OK, there is now 'ub' so you can do this without SCSI, but still ...
> I'm actually seeing two strands of requests (including from embedded)
>
> - CF only small "dumb as president" type driver that is written to be as
Just six weeks until you can't make that joke any more ...
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-09 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-03 1:38 [PATCH] remove ide-scsi FUJITA Tomonori
2008-12-03 10:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-03 13:31 ` Willem Riede
2008-12-03 13:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-03 14:02 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-03 15:09 ` James Bottomley
2008-12-06 6:12 ` Pete Zaitcev
2008-12-06 14:06 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 14:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 15:06 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-06 16:29 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 15:25 ` Willem Riede
2008-12-06 15:59 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 17:00 ` Dan Noé
2008-12-06 21:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 22:24 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-06 22:52 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-06 23:02 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-06 23:19 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-06 23:32 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 0:08 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-07 11:40 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 14:46 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-07 15:04 ` James Bottomley
2008-12-07 15:21 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-09 22:21 ` libata / scsi separation Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-09 22:38 ` James Bottomley
2008-12-10 3:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-10 1:54 ` Tejun Heo
2008-12-10 2:29 ` Grant Grundler
2008-12-10 2:47 ` Tejun Heo
2008-12-10 3:23 ` Grant Grundler
2008-12-10 3:44 ` Tejun Heo
2008-12-10 15:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-10 15:33 ` Tejun Heo
2008-12-10 16:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-10 17:11 ` Grant Grundler
2008-12-10 17:21 ` Grant Grundler
2008-12-07 0:19 ` [PATCH] remove ide-scsi Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-07 9:59 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-07 10:41 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-09 21:41 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-12-10 17:46 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-06 23:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-06 23:42 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-06 23:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-07 3:36 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-12-07 4:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-07 5:07 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-12-07 11:00 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-09 19:59 ` Mark Lord
2008-12-09 20:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-09 21:04 ` James Bottomley
2008-12-06 23:45 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 23:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-06 23:40 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 23:51 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 0:56 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-07 1:14 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 10:32 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-06 23:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-12-06 22:33 ` Al Viro
2008-12-06 23:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06 23:17 ` Willem Riede
2008-12-07 0:09 ` Al Viro
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