From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:20:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:20:42 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:17937 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:20:39 -0500 From: Russell King Message-Id: <200101082214.WAA00962@raistlin.arm.linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: The advantage of modules? To: goemon@anime.net (Dan Hollis) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:14:25 +0000 (GMT) Cc: meissner@spectacle-pond.org (Michael Meissner), ookhoi@dds.nl (Ookhoi), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Dan Hollis" at Jan 08, 2001 02:16:05 PM X-Location: london.england.earth.mulky-way.universe X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dan Hollis writes: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Russell King wrote: > > I don't believe that is what it's trying to say. There have been instances > > in the past where unplugging a SCSI device from a powered on SCSI bus can > > result in blown terminator power fuses and the like. Whether this still > > applies today, I don't know (are active terminators better or worse than > > passive when it comes to this type of thing?) > > The term SCSI is depreciated as purely a physical layer. We talk SCSI over > many different physical layers (1394, usb, ata). Of course many of these > support hot plug natively. And can you please explain how I can attach this USB Zip drive to this 50-wire SCSI bus please? Or would you prefer me to call it a bus? Something with 4 wheels maybe? Maybe we should depreciate the term "bus" as well just to remove that confusion. ;) Seriously though, you can't depreciate a term for referring to a type of bus without providing some other term to describe said bus. _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/