> >[...]
> > To be honest - why keep ide-[cd,floppy,tape] when they can be almost
> > completely replaced with ide-scsi?
> James Bottomley was going to take care of this, so I did not
> even bother with ide-tape cleanups in 2.5. Good riddance for
> that crap.
Hey, you mean it's suddenly become my problem...?
I think I can clean up the SCSI upper layer drivers so they speak request prep
functions which would translate the request (or ioctl) into the correct SCSI
command and hand it back as a REQ_SPECIAL by 2.6
In order for this type of thing to be acceptable to the IDE subsystem, the
attachment can't be a Scsi_Cmnd structure like it is now. The plans I have to
take a struct request all the way down to a SCSI host adapter and get rid of
Scsi_Cmnd will probably finally make it possible to attach the st driver
directly to an IDE device but this definitely won't make it in time for 2.6.
James
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