On Monday 17 September 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:46 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > 0024 drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > > <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > This reminds me that ide-scsi needs a real Maintainer, I don't have a > > time to > > closely follow-up SCSI changes... > > Er, well, I thought it had been dead for some time ... we decided its >From looking at git log output I suspect that it has been dead since October 2006 (but I hasn't verified this yet so I may be wrong). > many bugs were virtually unfixable in 2.5. Willem Riede > <osst@xxxxxxxxx> had been trying to keep it working with chewing gum and > bailing wire for the onstream tape unit. Yes, osst driver seems to be the main user of ide-scsi nowadays, other ATAPI devices has (better) native IDE support... > Realistically (and I hate myself for saying this) libata-pata does > provide a much better alternative for the ATAPI devices. Is it just > time to recognise the inevitable and kill ide-scsi? Agreed, libata-pata is a much better version of ide-scsi. ;-) If there is general consensus about ide-scsi removal I think that we should start with disabling ide-scsi Kconfig entry in 2.6.24 to later remove the ide-scsi driver completely in 2.6.25. Bart - 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
