Re: [patch] My AMD IDE driver, v2.7

J. Dow
2002-03-12T02:54:41Z

From: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@transmeta.com>

> Yeah yeah. You can add additional levels of protection, and we have
> capabilities.
>
> Add a special password-protected capability, so that only YOU can enable
> certain hardware access stuff. Where does it end? Is one such capability
> enough? How do you initialize the default values for the system if you
> need to be there to type in the password at bootup every time? We're
> talking about some rather fundamental things here, and these are issues
> that go _far_ beyond some silly ATA stack layer.

Linus, this discussion hung on long enough I decided to start reading it.
So I may have missed something. However, I notice you speak of a networking
example. I believe it is a strawman. The real comparison is closer to that
between IDE and SCSI. Do the SCSI device drivers filter? What and how do
they filter if they do at all? Aren't they a better model to adopt for
a system consistent interface philosophy?

{^_^} Joanne Dow, jdow@earthlink.net