Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi

Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-07T09:59:11Z

Hello, I wrote:

> Actually, embedded world is much more diverse in its IDE
> implementations/requirements (you can still encounter a full fledged
> UltraDMA/133 PATA contoller embedded within a modern SoC), even to the
> point of complete perversions. I know of a flash device which claims
> to be IDE compatible (and is indeed registrer level compatible) but
> only supports certain standard commands, but implements internal
> paritioning scheme with reads/writes done by vendor specific commands
> (not even using the standard IDE command execution protocol, IIRC :-).

Er, no. Judging on the patch that I had to review last year, the
command protocol is also compatible, so it could've been "riding" on the
IDE core, just like ide-disk.c (probably libata as well). Instead it's
driven by a huge out of tree driver (size of a mammoth) -- not sure
why... :-)
>> Alan

MBR, Sergei