From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Yinghai Lu" Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 19:36:06 -0800 Message-ID: <86802c440812061936v4629857ehbd2705e389e4378b@mail.gmail.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> <493B0A8E.7000506@garzik.org> <493B0DF2.4090901@ru.mvista.com> <493B0F36.6030509@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.224]:28700 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753380AbYLGDgH (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2008 22:36:07 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id k40so634936rvb.1 for ; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:36:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <493B0F36.6030509@garzik.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Sergei Shtylyov , Alan Cox , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dan_No=E9?= , James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , FUJITA Tomonori , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, osst@riede.org On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > A key reason why, years ago, libata used SCSI as a framework was its utility > as a generic driver framework. > > Therefore, it is an obvious requirement that the non-SCSI "driver framework" > code that libata uses must be reimplemented -- in block layer or libata -- > in order to export an ATA disk as a pure block device. > > The latest step towards that goal occurred quite recently: block layer > timeouts. interesting, so will get /dev/ada instead of /dev/sda? anyone one is building block layer for USB disk? will get /dev/uda? YH