From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pete Zaitcev Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 23:12:00 -0700 Message-ID: <20081205231200.ecc39dc5.zaitcev@redhat.com> References: <20081203103856S.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20081203100643.GA29340@infradead.org> <1228316941.5551.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:43360 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750790AbYLFGM0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2008 01:12:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1228316941.5551.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Christoph Hellwig , FUJITA Tomonori , bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, osst@riede.org On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:09:00 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > git log tells me ide-scsi has been updated quite a bit recently, but it > mostly looks to be fallout around the drivers/ide churn. Can we get ide > maintainer's buy in for this (I think they've been maintaining ide-tape > and ide-cd in preference to ide-scsi)? They must be bonkers to do it. I fixed a couple of bugs in ide-tape and it was one of the worst drivers I worked on, ever (worse than floppy.c, I kid you not). It definitely must die before ide-scsi. Fortunately, I solved this issue by hooking my tape to USB bridge, or else I'd be up in arms and wanting Tomo's blood. -- Pete