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From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.22] simple ide-tape.c and ide-floppy.c cleanup
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:18:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207032018.g63KIis03950@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1025711581.26152.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>

>[...]
> To be honest - why keep ide-[cd,floppy,tape] when they can be almost
> completely replaced with ide-scsi?

James Bottomley was going to take care of this, so I did not
even bother with ide-tape cleanups in 2.5. Good riddance for
that crap.

Note though, ide-tape is not anywhere near semantically
to the ide-scsi+st, because of its "sophisticated" (e.g. utterly
broken) internal pipeline. It does a lot of work underneath
the /dev boundary. Apparently, the author had a bad case of streaming
stoppages on his 386, so instead of fixing the root cause he
wrote the monster we have today. Getting rid of ide-tape may
cause problems on 386's. But then again, perhaps not.

-- Pete

       reply	other threads:[~2002-07-03 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1025711581.26152.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-07-03 20:18 ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2002-07-03 22:09   ` [PATCH 2.5.22] simple ide-tape.c and ide-floppy.c cleanup Andre Hedrick
2002-07-03 22:21 James Bottomley
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-03 15:51 Eduard Bloch
2002-07-03 18:03 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-07-08  4:23 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-07-08 20:33   ` Paul Bristow
2002-07-08 21:41     ` Andre Hedrick
2002-07-08 21:56     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-07-09 12:28     ` Martin Dalecki
2002-07-09 12:46       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-06-19 21:45 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-06-20  5:42 ` Jens Axboe
2002-06-20  9:16   ` Martin Dalecki
2002-06-20  9:19     ` Jens Axboe
2002-06-20  9:22       ` Martin Dalecki
2002-06-20 16:37         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-06-20 16:41           ` Martin Dalecki
2002-06-20 16:44           ` Jens Axboe
2002-06-20 16:50             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-06-20 17:26               ` Jens Axboe

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