Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi

Yinghai Lu
2008-12-07T03:36:06Z

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> 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