From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936502AbXGQXTG (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:19:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754464AbXGQXS0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:18:26 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:50851 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934008AbXGQXSW (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:18:22 -0400 Message-ID: <469D4E37.5040202@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:18:15 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: Linus Torvalds , Giacomo Catenazzi , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jens Axboe , akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: regression: disk error loop (panic?) ide_do_rw_disk-bad: References: <469D1D5E.8050609@cateee.net> <200707180045.03352.bzolnier@gmail.com> <200707180114.56942.bzolnier@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200707180114.56942.bzolnier@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 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 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >>> The new generic SG layer is CONFIG_SCSI=y "generic" in the current tree. >> Yeah. I know, I already talked to Jens about it - in order to be generic, >> the BSG stuff really does end up having to be able to stand on its own, >> since not everybody wants/needs the whole SCSI layer. > > bsg looks really promising and it would be great if we can use it also > for IDE driver. Agreed. IMO: bsg should be able to be used for sending ATA commands (taskfiles) as well as SCSI commands. Jeff