From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/6] scsi: sr: support runtime pm Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:57:48 -0400 Message-ID: <506922CC.1030002@pobox.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-qc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:51338 "EHLO mail-qc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751090Ab2JAE5v (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2012 00:57:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Stern Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Aaron Lu , Oliver Neukum , 'James Bottomley' , Linux-pm mailing list , SCSI development list , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 09/30/2012 03:43 PM, Alan Stern wrote: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2012, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> The simple fact of "only ZPODD devices out there are ATA" is not the >> decision-maker for where the code should live. It is more a question >> where ZPODD belongs in the device/command set model currently employed. > > I don't really accept this argument. It's a little like saying: The > tty layer uses ioctl commands to control RS232 line settings; therefore > RS232 settings should be handled in the VFS layer as part of the ioctl > core. Hardly -- sr is an optical device driver, much more aligned. And libata is probably at least 50% of the entire sr userbase, if not much much more. Jeff