From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757321AbXFOVv1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:51:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759248AbXFOVu7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:50:59 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:60027 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759241AbXFOVu5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:50:57 -0400 Message-ID: <467309BA.8000009@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:50:50 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, axboe@kernel.dk, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver References: <20070615120848.352093000@pademelon.sonytel.be> <1181918159.25228.543.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070615.141720.112626963.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20070615.141720.112626963.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > It's senseless to make people build new major/minor numbers for > all these new quirky storage drivers. People have to add support > for the new major number to installers and all kinds of other > tools. FWIW that's why libata followed the path it did: faking SCSI required the least amount of code for the maximal amount of existing storage driver and platform installer support. Well, that and the fact that ATAPI is really SCSI, but that's offtopic for this thread. :) Jeff