From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:50:50 -0400 Message-ID: <467309BA.8000009@garzik.org> References: <20070615120848.352093000@pademelon.sonytel.be> <1181918159.25228.543.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070615.141720.112626963.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:60027 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759241AbXFOVu5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:50:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070615.141720.112626963.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Cc: Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, axboe@kernel.dk, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org David Miller wrote: > It's senseless to make people build new major/minor numbers for > all these new quirky storage drivers. People have to add support > for the new major number to installers and all kinds of other > tools. FWIW that's why libata followed the path it did: faking SCSI required the least amount of code for the maximal amount of existing storage driver and platform installer support. Well, that and the fact that ATAPI is really SCSI, but that's offtopic for this thread. :) Jeff