Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5

[H. Peter Anvin]

Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>>
>> Then *please* make a *compatible* interface available to user space. 
>> This certainly can be done; the parallel port IDE interface stuff had 
>> exactly such an interface (/dev/pg*) -- we could have a /dev/hg* 
>> interface presumably.  That is an acceptable solution. 
> 
> But Linus is wanting exactly that! As far as I understand, Linus would 
> like a generic interface sitting at the higher layers, and that is used 
> by the ide/atapi/scsi layers. I read this as implying that the user 
> space interface will also be only one. It will talk to the higher 
> layers, the lower layers can then do all the hw specific magic.
> 

That's fine with me.

	-hpa