On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > I'd much rather this redoing of stuff didnt expand further. The job list
> > > is growing not shrinking right now. Its making me jumpy at least.
> >
> > I'm definitely nervous about growing changes, but at the same time I'd
> > hate to say "no" to a pending cleanup of an area that really is a bit too
> > tangled, and where a lot of the issues are just shrouded in mystery and
> > years of historical reasons..
>
> Eric,
>
> Welcome to the party......
>
> It looks like it is time to clean house on this issue.
> I am in, to resolve and contribute for IDE. You name came up before in
> another discussion about SCSI I had the other day.
>
> I suggested Linux consider the move to a default packet global block
> device layer and both SCSI and IDE plug into it.
>
> I checked with T13 and possed the question of moving all of ATA to ATAPI,
> the vice chairman explained to me that the translation lay would be to
> thick and involved..........I am game to prove them wrong.........
>
> Your thoughts to merge the two major block subsystems into one...
Ouch... Guys, before it will get us too far - let's decide on isolation of
_both_ IDE and SCSI from VFS (along with the rest of block devices). Then
it will become much more edible...
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