Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver

Linus Torvalds
2003-05-26T05:02:56Z

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Just to echo some comments I said in private, this driver is _not_
> a replacement for drivers/ide. This is not, and has never been,
> the intention. In fact, I need drivers/ide's continued existence,
> so that I may have fewer boundaries on future development.

Just out of interest, is there any _point_ to this driver? I can
appreciate the approach, but I'd like to know if it does anything (at all)
better than the native IDE driver? Faster? Anything?

Linus