From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.22] simple ide-tape.c and ide-floppy.c cleanup
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 06:23:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D2913C9.3030409@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020703155113.GA26299@zombie.inka.de
Użytkownik Eduard Bloch napisał:
> Why not another way round? Just make the ide-scsi driver be prefered,
> and hack ide-scsi a bit to simulate the cdrom and adv.floppy devices
> that are expected as /dev/hd* by some user's configuration?
This is the intention.
>
> To be honest - why keep ide-[cd,floppy,tape] when they can be almost
> completely replaced with ide-scsi? I know about only few cdrom devices
> that are broken (== not ATAPI compliant) but can be used with
> workarounds in the current ide-cd driver. OTOH many users do already
> need ide-scsi to access cd recorders and similar hardware, so they would
> benefit much more from having ide-scsi as default than few users of
> broken "atapi" drives.
>
> Other operating systems did switch to constitent (scsi-based) way of
> accessing all kinds of removable media drivers. Why does Linux have to
> keep a kludge, written years ago without having a good concept?
>
> Gruss/Regards,
> Eduard.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-08 4:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-03 15:51 [PATCH 2.5.22] simple ide-tape.c and ide-floppy.c cleanup Eduard Bloch
2002-07-03 18:03 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-07-08 4:23 ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
2002-07-08 20:33 ` Paul Bristow
2002-07-08 21:41 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-07-08 21:56 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-07-09 12:28 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-07-09 12:46 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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2002-07-03 22:21 James Bottomley
[not found] <mailman.1025711581.26152.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-07-03 20:18 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-07-03 22:09 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-06-19 21:45 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-06-20 5:42 ` Jens Axboe
2002-06-20 9:16 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-06-20 9:19 ` Jens Axboe
2002-06-20 9:22 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-06-20 16:37 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-06-20 16:41 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-06-20 16:44 ` Jens Axboe
2002-06-20 16:50 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-06-20 17:26 ` Jens Axboe
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