Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi

Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-10T17:46:34Z

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