Re: [PATCH] Is it time to kill ide-scsi.c?

[Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>>  I have attempted (below) to convert ide-scsi to the new data
>>  accessors and cleanup the !use_sg code paths. Inspecting
>>  the code I can see places that still assume scsi_cmnd->request_buffer
>>  is a linear char pointer. Though I admit this assumption is hidden
>>  behind a flag "test_bit(PC_TRANSFORM, &pc->flags)". Is this an indication
>>  that this drivers no longer works? What is needed in order to kill this
>>  driver? If no killing is done than please accepted below patch.
>>
>>  Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c |   48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>>  1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> This is a very popular driver for some configurations.  I know many 
> people that used this for their ATAPI driver, rather than 
> ide-{cdrom,floppy,...}
> 
> 	Jeff
> 
> 
> 
Two questions than
1. All these users, don't they have a new solution with PATA drivers
or that is only for new HW/chipsets?

2. Do you know who is the maintainer of this driver? Because if it is
still needed, than my patch must be accepted. And I think my added BUG()
only does it good.

Thanks
Boaz