Jeff Garzik wrote: > 1) Make SCSI block devices themselves an allocate-able resource (I think > that's what you meant by "placed into it's own module so both sd and a > ULD ata driver could use it"?) > > 2) Ensure that any ata_disk ULD would support the same partition limits > and ioctl set, enough to ensure binary compatibility. > > Because that's the real need -- maintaining binary compatibility with > SCSI block devices, so major/minor, ioctl supported set, partition > limits, and other relevant details need to remain unchanged. > > The underlying software we're of course free to change... I'm taking this approach. I think it's better than introducing a new block device while keeping the old one as that causes numerous userland problems including dup devices (if they're gonna exist side-by-side) and eventual need for conversion && breakage of old userland on newer kernels. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
