From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: RFC: moving drivers to a new drivers/ata directory Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:46:05 -0400 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4176883D.7070905@pobox.com> References: <416F5757.8000306@pobox.com> <20041015074627.GA18977@infradead.org> <41700747.6040506@pobox.com> <20041020153444.GA21881@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:19161 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268467AbUJTPqU (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:46:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20041020153444.GA21881@infradead.org> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: SCSI Mailing List , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Alan Cox Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:22:15PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Welcome to the real world, where SCSI drivers can be for non-SCSI >>hardware, and where SCSI hardware can also drive non-SCSI devices. >> >>Fix your subsystem, if it can't support SCSI drivers outside of >>drivers/scsi. > > > It's not about not working but making life for the scsi maintainers easier. SCSI drivers outside drivers/scsi are going to continue to be a fact of life... And if that is the case there shouldn't be much of a demonstrable difference between drivers/scsi... except for the obvious times when drivers/scsi is used but is inappropriate. Jeff