From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com, dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:50:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <467309BA.8000009@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070615.141720.112626963.davem@davemloft.net>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-15 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-15 11:39 [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 2 Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 1/6] ps3: Preallocate bootmem memory for the PS3 FLASH ROM storage driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 13:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15 13:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-18 16:25 ` [patch 1/6] ps3: Preallocate bootmem memory for the PS3 FLASH Milton Miller
2007-06-19 11:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 2/6] ps3: Storage Driver Core Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 3/6] PS3: Storage device registration routines Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 14:35 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 14:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 14:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 16:15 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 18:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 21:19 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 22:40 ` James Bottomley
2007-06-15 23:08 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 23:28 ` James Bottomley
2007-06-15 23:37 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 5:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 6:07 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 23:11 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-16 6:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19 5:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 6:03 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 7:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 21:17 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-15 21:37 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:50 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-06-15 21:55 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 5:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 12:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19 17:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 5/6] ps3: ROM " Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-18 16:30 ` Milton Miller
2007-06-19 5:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 12:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-20 12:16 ` Milton Miller
2007-06-19 5:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 6/6] ps3: FLASH " Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-18 16:30 ` Milton Miller
2007-06-19 12:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-21 14:14 [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 3 Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-21 14:14 ` [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-04 13:22 [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 4 Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-04 13:22 ` [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Geert Uytterhoeven
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