On Sunday 07 December 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > Hello. > > > > Alan Cox wrote: > >>> I think that for the time being it is best to just proceed with the > >>> removal > >>> and see if there are any users needing the driver (+ we should > >>> probably try > >>> SCSI/libata/osst path first). > >>> > >> > >> Far better to just leave it there. It generally works for users so all > >> you are doing is creating a regression with no possible benefit (other > >> than encouraging people to move to libata so we can obsolete all of > >> drivers/ide - which is what we really need to do and move the last few > >> users over) > >> > > > > Oh, yes. SCSI emulation is just what Linux embedded world is asking > > for... > > The goal is to make SCSI emulation optional for ATA devices, by creating > a libata ATA block device driven by the libata driver framework. Given five years this is too-less-too-late by my book. Especially given that you are still talking about the "goal" not the actual "code"... Anyway this becomes offtopic to ide-scsi removal. -- 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
