On Wednesday 04 April 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:22:35 -0700 > "Willem Riede" <wrlk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 4/4/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:26:14 +0200 Kern Sibbald <kern@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > I'm all in favor of deprecating ide-tape if ide-scsi is a viable alternative, > > > > > > ow. ide-scsi is in very bad shape and nobody is maintaining it or fixing > > > bugs in it or anything. The only reason we retain ide-scsi at all is, err, I haven't heard about any major bugs besides well known module unload problem. What have I missed? > > > because some tape drives need it. > > > > > > If we have no alternative to using ide-scsi, and if the tape controllers in > > > question are not some terribly obscure things which nobody would seriously > > > use then we have a bit of a problem. I don't know of anyone who we can > > > turn to to get anything done in ide-scsi. > > > > Andrew, > > > > Kai suggests that libata should be able to take over from ide-scsi. > > Do you concur? > > That would be very nice if we can make it happen. I don't know how close > we are to that, but the fine folks on linux-ide might be able tell us. > > > That may be a better way forward than ide-scsi. > > I know, because I had a hard enough time with it when I needed > > to fix it so it worked for osst, at least. > > > > Regards, Willem Riede. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
