Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-12-06T23:47:28Z

On Sunday 07 December 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > 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...
>
> The goal is to make SCSI emulation optional for ATA devices, by creating
> a libata ATA block device driven by the libata driver framework.

Given five years this is too-less-too-late by my book. Especially given
that you are still talking about the "goal" not the actual "code"...

Anyway this becomes offtopic to ide-scsi removal.