From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:52:27 +0300 Message-ID: <493B022B.3050406@ru.mvista.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20081206222423.04aada70@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?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 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... > Alan MBR, Sergei