Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi

James Bottomley
2008-12-03T15:09:00Z

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 05:06 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:38:54AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > This is for 2.6.29 (not 2.6.28) as feature-removal-schedule.txt says.
> >
> > It's against linux-next (which seems to has some changes to ide-scsi
> > for 2.6.29 from the ide tree).
>
> Isn't ide-scsi the only way to use ATAPI OnStream tapes supported by
> the osst driver?

Depends. If you're still using drivers/ide then yes, it is. With
libata (which is what most modern distros use), osst just works as an
ATAPI transport.

git log tells me ide-scsi has been updated quite a bit recently, but it
mostly looks to be fallout around the drivers/ide churn. Can we get ide
maintainer's buy in for this (I think they've been maintaining ide-tape
and ide-cd in preference to ide-scsi)?

James