From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net (srv5.dvmed.net [207.36.208.214]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A7EDDF8B for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:51:00 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <467309BA.8000009@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:50:50 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver References: <20070615120848.352093000@pademelon.sonytel.be> <1181918159.25228.543.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070615.141720.112626963.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20070615.141720.112626963.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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 List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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