From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: device suspend/resume Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:15:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20050524071538.GX9855@suse.de> References: <20050523201535.GA24298@havoc.gtf.org> <1116880875.5021.34.camel@mulgrave> <20050523204516.GA28058@havoc.gtf.org> <1116886206.5021.42.camel@mulgrave> <20050524062128.GT9855@suse.de> <4292CF5D.90809@pobox.com> <20050524070714.GU9855@suse.de> <4292D37C.5020700@pobox.com> <4292D44C.2040102@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:25269 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261385AbVEXHPr (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 03:15:47 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4292D44C.2040102@suse.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Hannes Reinecke Cc: Jeff Garzik , James Bottomley , SCSI Mailing List , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 24 2005, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Jens Axboe wrote: > >> On Tue, May 24 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>> I can describe how this will look when libata is divorced from SCSI, > >>> if you would like, too... > >> > >> I was beginning to dispair you had given up that plan... > > > > hehe, nope. I promised Linus, and I plan to keep my promise :) > > > > I know how to do it. Internally things have been kept as separate as > > possible from the SCSI layer. > > > > Bart even hinted at possibly using libata-without-SCSI for future > > /dev/hdX support. It's certainly doable. > > > AAArgh! No, not again! > > We've finally succeeded in convincing everyone that having '/dev/sdX' > instead of '/dev/hdX' was a neccessary step forward. > I think we're getting shot if we now tell them to reverse this _again_. > Can we at least have it optional? Moving to /dev/sdX was never a step forward, it's was merely a necessary side ways step because libata used the scsi layer. A step forward would be device agnostic /dev/disk mappings instead. > Or are you talking about linux-3.X ? Hopefully before that :-) -- Jens Axboe