On Tue, May 24 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >On Tue, May 24 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>I can describe how this will look when libata is divorced from SCSI, if > >>you would like, too... > > > >I was beginning to dispair you had given up that plan... > > hehe, nope. I promised Linus, and I plan to keep my promise :) You promised me, too :) > I know how to do it. Internally things have been kept as separate as > possible from the SCSI layer. We should start a list of items that could potentially be moved to the block layer that libata currently uses. > > Bart even hinted at possibly using libata-without-SCSI for future > /dev/hdX support. It's certainly doable. >From my point of view, I think it would be a good way to kick off /dev/disk device agnostic mappings. -- Jens Axboe - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
