Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi

Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-09T21:41:29Z

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 11:02:27PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Oh, yes. SCSI emulation is just what Linux embedded world is asking
> > for...
>
> 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.

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 ...

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