On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 11:02:27PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Oh, yes. SCSI emulation is just what Linux embedded world is asking > > for... > > Well ATAPI is SCSI emulation (its a sort of pidgin SCSI admittedly). I'm told (by people who work with embedded people) that first the customer says "Oh, I don't need the block layer, I just need MTD", so they disable CONFIG_BLOCK, then the customer says "Oh, I need to support USB storage", so they re-enable CONFIG_BLOCK, add CONFIG_SCSI and scsi disk support and usb-storage. OK, there is now 'ub' so you can do this without SCSI, but still ... > I'm actually seeing two strands of requests (including from embedded) > > - CF only small "dumb as president" type driver that is written to be as Just six weeks until you can't make that joke any more ... -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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
