Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

Alan Cox
2005-02-21T17:39:46Z

On Llu, 2005-02-21 at 15:25, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> I haven't looked closely but I've noticed that these fixes are accessing rq->bio
> directly which is a layering violation. Could you de-bio and submit them?
> [ AFAIR they are already splitted out in RHEL4 ]

Not in the near future.

> Speaking about ide-scsi, it will be undeprecated after I fix the locking.
> Rationale is that ide-scsi is _much_ simpler than ide-{cd,tape}.
> [ although it doesn't support all the hardware that ide-{cd,tape} do ]

And vice versa with ide-cd - not always for reasons I understand either.