From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>,
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
YOKOTA Hiroshi <yokota@netlab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
Mark Fortescue <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk>,
osst@riede.org
Subject: Re: [patchset 0/24] Lots of the Accessors patches and !use_sg cleanup
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:05:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709172205.36070.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190037090.3386.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Monday 17 September 2007, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:46 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > 0024 drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> > <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> >
> > This reminds me that ide-scsi needs a real Maintainer, I don't have a
> > time to
> > closely follow-up SCSI changes...
>
> Er, well, I thought it had been dead for some time ... we decided its
>From looking at git log output I suspect that it has been dead since
October 2006 (but I hasn't verified this yet so I may be wrong).
> many bugs were virtually unfixable in 2.5. Willem Riede
> <osst@riede.org> had been trying to keep it working with chewing gum and
> bailing wire for the onstream tape unit.
Yes, osst driver seems to be the main user of ide-scsi nowadays,
other ATAPI devices has (better) native IDE support...
> Realistically (and I hate myself for saying this) libata-pata does
> provide a much better alternative for the ATAPI devices. Is it just
> time to recognise the inevitable and kill ide-scsi?
Agreed, libata-pata is a much better version of ide-scsi. ;-)
If there is general consensus about ide-scsi removal I think that we
should start with disabling ide-scsi Kconfig entry in 2.6.24 to later
remove the ide-scsi driver completely in 2.6.25.
Bart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-17 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-11 20:23 [patchset 0/24] Lots of the Accessors patches and !use_sg cleanup Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-11 20:50 ` Cameron, Steve
2007-09-11 21:05 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-11 23:49 ` [PATCH 01/24] usb: transport - convert to accessors and !use_sg code path removal Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-11 23:50 ` [PATCH 02/24] usb: protocol.c " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-11 23:51 ` [PATCH 03/24] usb: shuttle_usbat.c " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-11 23:51 ` [PATCH 04/24] usb: freecom.c & sddr09.c - convert to accessors and !use_sg cleanup Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-11 23:53 ` [PATCH 05/24] isd200.c: use one-element sg list in issuing commands Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-11 23:54 ` [PATCH 06/24] NCR5380 familly convert to accessors & !use_sg cleanup Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-11 23:55 ` [PATCH 07/24] arm: scsi convert to accessors and " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 7:42 ` Russell King
2007-09-18 15:04 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-12-15 0:27 ` James Bottomley
2007-12-16 15:28 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-02-01 20:10 ` Russell King
2008-01-31 18:09 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-11 23:56 ` [PATCH 08/24] nsp_cs.c convert to data " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-11 23:58 ` [PATCH 09/24] libata-scsi: convert to use the data buffer accessors Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-12 0:25 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 1:40 ` Matthew Dharm
2007-09-12 6:36 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-18 15:46 ` [PATCH ver2 1/2] libata-scsi: Remove !use_sg code paths Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-20 21:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-18 15:48 ` [PATCH ver2 2/2] libata-scsi: convert to use the data buffer accessors Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:00 ` [PATCH 10/24] eata_pio.c: convert to accessors and !use_sg cleanup Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:00 ` [PATCH 11/24] a2091.c: " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:01 ` [PATCH 12/24] a3000.c: " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:02 ` [PATCH 13/24] aha1542.c: " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:03 ` [PATCH 14/24] atp870u.c: " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:04 ` [PATCH 15/24] fd_mcs.c: " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:05 ` [PATCH 16/24] imm.c: " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:06 ` [PATCH 17/24] in2000.c: " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:07 ` [PATCH 18/24] ppa.c: " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:07 ` [PATCH 19/24] wd33c93.c: " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:09 ` Subject: [PATCH 20/24] scsi: esp family " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:09 ` [PATCH 21/24] qlogicpti.c: " Boaz Harrosh
2007-10-10 18:25 ` [PATCH 21/24 ver2] " Boaz Harrosh
2007-10-10 22:58 ` David Miller
2007-09-12 0:10 ` Subject: [PATCH 22/24] Remove psi240i driver from kernel Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:11 ` [PATCH 23/24] wd7000.c - proper fix for boards without sg support Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-12 0:13 ` [PATCH 24/24] ide-scsi.c: convert to data accessors and !use_sg cleanup Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-17 11:04 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-09-18 8:49 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-18 9:03 ` [PATCH ver2 " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-18 9:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-18 10:24 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-18 10:27 ` [PATCH 24/24 ver3 ] " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-19 19:59 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-09-12 16:00 ` [patchset 0/24] Lots of the Accessors patches " Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-09-17 10:46 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-09-17 11:36 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-17 13:51 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-17 20:05 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2007-09-17 20:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-17 21:00 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-17 21:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-10 18:24 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-10-10 19:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
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