Rob Landley wrote: > I was at least attempting to ask a serious question. ... > Actually, I was going through Documentation/block thinking about making a > 00-INDEX for it, but my earlier questions of the scsi guys left me with the > impression that the block layer is _not_ used by the SCSI layer. Ah, so it was about your documentation work. I already forgot the context of your previous inquiries. Alas the tone of them already did some damage, leading to responses like these. ... > since > every non-embedded modern storage device I'm aware of has been consumed by > the SCSI layer (despite none of them actually having a discernably closer > relationship to SCSI than ATA did) ... The Linux SCSI subsystems don't consume, they provide services; nowadays not only for SCSI hardware and SCSI protocols but also for a number of subsystems whose tasks are similar enough to SCSI subsystems to make the SCSI core and upper SCSI layer useful to them too. BTW: | Now that IDE disks have been rerouted through the scsi layer, SATA goes | through the scsi layer, USB goes through the scsi layer, firewire goes | through the scsi layer... As a side note, SBP-2 is a SCSI transport protocol, hence ieee1394/sbp2 and firewire/fw-sbp2 are Linux SCSI low-level drivers. Anything else would be just wrong and infeasible in this particular case. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== =-=- -==== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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
