From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The survival of ide-scsi in 2.6.x
Date: 7 Jan 2004 22:22:20 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bti0qs$7dc$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200401052200.i05M0vnm002436@harpo.it.uu.se
In article <200401052200.i05M0vnm002436@harpo.it.uu.se>,
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> wrote:
| On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:12:42 -0500, Willem Riede wrote:
| >I know that many feel that ide-scsi is useless, and should go away.
| >And you are probably tired of message threads talking about it.
| >Yet I ask respectfully that you hear me out, and give me feedback.
| >
| >I need ide-scsi to survive. Why? I maintain osst, a driver for
| >OnStream tape drives, which need special handling. These drives
| ...
| >So can we agree to keep ide-scsi? I know it is not desired any
| >more for cd writers. To avoid the problem reports from people who
| >don't realize that and select ide-scsi anyway, we can refuse to
| >attach to a cd-type device (today it just warns). And/or make a
| >new explicit module parameter to tell ide-scsi exactly which
| >drives to attach to.
|
| I have a simple patch to do exactly that. Contact me if you want it.
I interpret a recent note to say that Willem Riede is provisional
maintainer, so please send him what you have. It would be great to get
some of the personal fixes into the code base.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-07 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-05 22:00 The survival of ide-scsi in 2.6.x Mikael Pettersson
2004-01-07 22:22 ` bill davidsen [this message]
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2004-01-05 22:01 Mikael Pettersson
2004-01-05 22:33 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-12-30 18:44 James Bottomley
2003-12-30 22:18 ` Willem Riede
2004-01-03 19:08 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-28 13:24 ` Willem Riede
2004-01-30 22:56 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-31 0:48 ` Willem Riede
[not found] <mailman.1072462764.22951.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-12-29 4:57 ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-12-29 13:07 ` Willem Riede
2003-12-26 18:12 Willem Riede
2003-12-27 2:09 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-27 12:43 ` Stef van der Made
[not found] ` <20031227131724.GG1277@linnie.riede.org>
2003-12-28 21:45 ` Stef van der Made
2004-01-03 14:11 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-03 14:18 ` Bill Davidsen
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