On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 16:57 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Monday 17 September 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > >> 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. > > > Perhaps it is strange to hear me say this, but... > > My experience with the IDE driver in the field is that ide-scsi sees a > fair amount of use, as an intentional replacement for ide-cd and the > other hand-written ide-$class ATAPI drivers. > > I would prefer that ide-scsi stays around as long as ide stays around. Of course ... as long as we get to address you as Mr Maintainer ... James - 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
