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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patchset 0/24] Lots of the Accessors patches and !use_sg cleanup
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:05:35 +0200
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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