From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6-pre2 IDE cleanup 16
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 10:45:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C85E524.6000101@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16iPv4-00052k-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>>Note that taskfiles are not being removed from IDE. Just direct (and
>>parsed and filtered) interface to userspace. Does the scsi midlayer
>>export the SCBs directly to userspace?
>>
>
> Yes. And whats more the scsi generic layer has a hell of a lot less ioctls
> than IDE because of that. With something like scsi enclosure, scsi smart,
> scsi scanners its a godsend to be able to just say "Ok OS take a hike, I
> wish to chat with this device exactly as I damn well please".
Please note that the plenthora of IDE ioctl comes from the fact that the
ioctl interface is trying to export every single possible IDE command
as an specific ioctl. This mechanism just got even extendid and called
"taskfile".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-06 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-05 7:54 [PATCH] per-cpu areas Rusty Russell
2002-03-05 10:51 ` [PATCH] 2.5.6-pre2 IDE cleanup 16 Martin Dalecki
2002-03-05 11:07 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-05 11:28 ` Jens Axboe
2002-03-05 11:54 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-05 12:04 ` Jens Axboe
2002-03-05 12:09 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 0:33 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 9:51 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-05 11:48 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 0:34 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-05 12:36 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-03-05 12:36 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-05 12:35 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-06 0:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-05 12:47 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-03-05 12:52 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 1:40 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 8:56 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-06 9:43 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 0:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 10:15 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-05 11:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-03-05 11:51 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-05 21:19 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-03-05 21:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-05 21:46 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-03-06 9:19 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 1:08 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 9:45 ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
2002-03-06 0:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 9:15 ` benh
2002-03-06 11:07 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 11:12 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-03-06 11:59 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 12:02 ` Meelis Roos
2002-03-06 12:11 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-06 16:01 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-03-06 20:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-06 17:00 ` benh
2002-03-06 9:49 ` Martin Dalecki
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-06 13:46 Ronnie Sahlberg
2002-03-13 15:55 Rick A. Hohensee
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