From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: RFC: moving drivers to a new drivers/ata directory
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:22:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41700747.6040506@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041015074627.GA18977@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:51:35AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>Eventually I would like to move libata, and a few non-libata driver like
>>3ware, to drivers/ata. It would appear in the makefile (and link order)
>>_after_ drivers/ide and drivers/scsi.
>>
>>Comments/objections?
>
>
> Only if your stop using the scsi subsystem. The handfull scsi drivers outside
> drivers/scsi are a pain already.
Welcome to the real world, where SCSI drivers can be for non-SCSI
hardware, and where SCSI hardware can also drive non-SCSI devices.
Fix your subsystem, if it can't support SCSI drivers outside of
drivers/scsi.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-15 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-15 4:51 RFC: moving drivers to a new drivers/ata directory Jeff Garzik
2004-10-15 7:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-15 17:22 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-10-20 15:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-20 15:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-21 17:04 ` PATAPI via libata promise 20275 (was: RFC: moving drivers to a new drivers/ata directory) Doug Maxey
2004-10-21 17:10 ` PATAPI via libata promise 20275 Jeff Garzik
2004-10-21 18:53 ` PATAPI via libata promise 20275 (was: RFC: moving drivers to a new drivers/ata directory) Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-15 8:37 ` RFC: moving drivers to a new drivers/ata directory Douglas Gilbert
2004-10-15 15:00 ` Brian King
2004-10-15 17:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-15 18:32 ` Alan Cox
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