From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:59:11 +0300 Message-ID: <493B9E6F.9080100@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> <493B022B.3050406@ru.mvista.com> <20081206230227.07b00e2f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <493B1677.5090705@ru.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from h155.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:14817 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753259AbYLGJ7W (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2008 04:59:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <493B1677.5090705@ru.mvista.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@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 Hello, I wrote: > Actually, embedded world is much more diverse in its IDE > implementations/requirements (you can still encounter a full fledged > UltraDMA/133 PATA contoller embedded within a modern SoC), even to the > point of complete perversions. I know of a flash device which claims > to be IDE compatible (and is indeed registrer level compatible) but > only supports certain standard commands, but implements internal > paritioning scheme with reads/writes done by vendor specific commands > (not even using the standard IDE command execution protocol, IIRC :-). Er, no. Judging on the patch that I had to review last year, the command protocol is also compatible, so it could've been "riding" on the IDE core, just like ide-disk.c (probably libata as well). Instead it's driven by a huge out of tree driver (size of a mammoth) -- not sure why... :-) >> Alan MBR, Sergei