Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5

Joerg Schilling (schilling@fokus.gmd.de)
Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:02:02 +0200 (CEST)


>Linus Torvalds wrote:

>I will violently oppose anything that implies that the IDE layer uses the
>SCSI layer normally. No way, Jose. I'm all for scrapping, but the thing
>that should be scrapped is ide-scsi.

Nobody who has a technical backgroupd and knows what to do wuld ever
make such a proposal.

Instead, there needs to be one or more SCSI HA driver as part of the SCSI stack.
This driver also needs to deal with plain ATA in order to be able to
coordinate access.

Jörg

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