From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:15:45 +0100 > > > Any particular reason why this is done as a separate block device driver > > > rather than as SCSI? > > > > Because no new fake SCSI drivers are accepted anymore. > > Where did drivers/ata come from ;) > > How about making it a fake ata driver if James is being fussy 8) That sounds like a good idea for my virtual I/O case on Niagara too actually :-) Another quirk I have to deal with is that under LDOMs you can export full disks and also just slices. So I'll have to get down into the partition machinery to support that somehow. - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
