> > Because the chunks of scsi midlayer we inherit (actually nowdays mostly > > block) are the pieces you need anyway to do multiple command queues, > > > > Er, what does this term mean? Several queues per device or a tagged > queue? Anything beyond issuing one command at a time. The moment you get errors with multiple command queues you really need the rest of the block supporting logic (small bits of which are still in scsi). > So, you're just presenting SCSI emulation as a "lesser evil". But 5 > years seems a long enough term to unbind all that stuff from SCSI. It's being done bit by bit. I wasn't aware it was a race, I always thought that being correct, logical, testable and evolutionary bisectable steps was more important somehow. Alan -- 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