>Alan Cox wrote:
>> Please consider deprecating or removing ide-floppy/ide-tape/ide-cdrom
>> and treat all ATAPI devices as what they really are -- SCSI over IDE.
>They aren't.
Please don't start again to tell onprooven statements....
We had a similar discussion in January 2001 and you did not give a proove
for this statement.
>o Not all ide cdrom devices are ATAPI capable
Name one drive made after 1993, one drive made after 1995 and one drive made
after 2000 to verify your statement.
>o Many ide floppy devices can do ATAPI but get it horribly wrong
Describe the problems.
>o ide-tape is -totally- weird and unrelated to st
Describe problems and name drives that will not work via ATAPI.
>Andre did the framework ready to move to a situation where you could open
>either the ide-scsi or the ide-cdrom name without module reloading mess.
>You'd need to ask our new 2.5 IDE maintainer to finish that work off.
This is a really bad idea!
The result of such bad hacks is that nobody really tests whether the new
code works.
Let me give an example:
If you try to put ide-scsi on top of PCATA (the interface that is used
in notebooks to connect external disks and CD-writers).
Depending on the kernel version, this either causes a system panic or
just does not work at all. As all ATAPI CD-writers and CD-rom drives
have a fallback to ATA commands, nobody who does not like to use a writer
will ever notice the problem. They simply access the CD-ROM as read only
ATA disk. If ide-cd would have been banned this bug would have been fixed years
ago.
>For disk it gets much easier. Linus has already said he wants a single
>'disk' device, which once we get 32bit dev_t will be nice. With that we
>can finally turn aacraid, megaraid and other 'fake scsi' devices back to
>raw block devices without breaking compatibility assumptions, and get more
>throughput.
Sorry, this has nothing to do with dev_t
Jörg
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