From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 00:45:41 +0100 Message-ID: <200812070045.42160.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <20081203103856S.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <493B022B.3050406@ru.mvista.com> <493B0A8E.7000506@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <493B0A8E.7000506@garzik.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Sergei Shtylyov , Alan Cox , Dan =?iso-8859-1?q?No=E9?= , James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , FUJITA Tomonori , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, osst@riede.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 07 December 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > Hello. > > > > Alan Cox wrote: > >>> I think that for the time being it is best to just proceed with the > >>> removal > >>> and see if there are any users needing the driver (+ we should > >>> probably try > >>> SCSI/libata/osst path first). > >>> > >> > >> Far better to just leave it there. It generally works for users so all > >> you are doing is creating a regression with no possible benefit (other > >> than encouraging people to move to libata so we can obsolete all of > >> drivers/ide - which is what we really need to do and move the last few > >> users over) > >> > > > > Oh, yes. SCSI emulation is just what Linux embedded world is asking > > for... > > The goal is to make SCSI emulation optional for ATA devices, by creating > a libata ATA block device driven by the libata driver framework. Given five years this is too-less-too-late by my book. Especially given that you are still talking about the "goal" not the actual "code"... Anyway this becomes offtopic to ide-scsi removal.