From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:46:34 +0300 Message-ID: <4940007A.6060603@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> <20081209214128.GT25548@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from h155.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:30992 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751660AbYLJRqk (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:46:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081209214128.GT25548@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Alan Cox , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Dan No? , James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , FUJITA Tomonori , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, osst@riede.org Hello. Matthew Wilcox wrote: >>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. That depends. And that is still not the same as SCSI subsys + SCSI disk driver + libata SCSI emulation. > 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 ... You're frightening me... What's going to happen after these 6 weeks? MBR, Sergei