On Wednesday 03 December 2008, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 05:06 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:38:54AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > > This is for 2.6.29 (not 2.6.28) as feature-removal-schedule.txt says. > > > > > > It's against linux-next (which seems to has some changes to ide-scsi > > > for 2.6.29 from the ide tree). > > > > Isn't ide-scsi the only way to use ATAPI OnStream tapes supported by > > the osst driver? > > Depends. If you're still using drivers/ide then yes, it is. With > libata (which is what most modern distros use), osst just works as an > ATAPI transport. > > git log tells me ide-scsi has been updated quite a bit recently, but it > mostly looks to be fallout around the drivers/ide churn. Can we get ide > maintainer's buy in for this (I think they've been maintaining ide-tape > and ide-cd in preference to ide-scsi)? Certainly, native ide-{cd,gd,tape} drivers are far superior over ide-scsi and are actively maintained. ide-scsi has been practically a dead code for a long time now (IIRC it has even been broken -- by some general kernel changes -- for few releases and nobody noticed, till Boaz discovered it while doing unrelated SCSI fixes) but I kept it on the live support anyway. However there needs to be some limit to it, especially given that driver has been officially orphaned for over a year now and nobody stepped in... I applied the scheduled removal patch to pata-2.6 tree, thanks Tomo! Thanks, Bart PS If somebody wants to work on OSST support for IDE we can provide an assistance into porting osst.c over generic ATAPI code -- it would still be much less hassle than trying to figure out remaining ide-scsi issues (lifetime rules for IDE / SCSI / IDE-SCSI objects, error handling etc.). -- 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