From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 14:41:29 -0700 Message-ID: <20081209214128.GT25548@parisc-linux.org> References: <20081203103856S.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <200812061551.08525.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20081206120001.3580b9e3@tuna> <200812062241.35601.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20081206222423.04aada70@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <493B022B.3050406@ru.mvista.com> <20081206230227.07b00e2f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:45520 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754717AbYLIVlq (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:41:46 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081206230227.07b00e2f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Sergei Shtylyov , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Dan No? , James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , FUJITA Tomonori , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, osst@riede.org 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."