From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Linux tape drivers Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:39:19 -0700 Message-ID: <20070404133919.ebcd0ddc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200704031508.37222.kern@sibbald.com> <20070403145728.d8f83320.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <150283e90704032000p7f447a26pe3752b22024a1b67@mail.gmail.com> <200704041626.15298.kern@sibbald.com> <20070404115536.fd752555.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <150283e90704041222v1d8554b6lcb5a6771d4a031b4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <150283e90704041222v1d8554b6lcb5a6771d4a031b4@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Willem Riede Cc: Kern Sibbald , Kai Makisara , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:22:35 -0700 "Willem Riede" wrote: > On 4/4/07, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:26:14 +0200 Kern Sibbald 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.