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
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