Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5

From: Joerg Schilling (schilling@fokus.gmd.de)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 10:08:52 EST


>From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
>On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote:

>> I would be happy to hear about concepts. Currently it looks as if at
>> least some people like to keep everything as it is. This is not a
>> conceptional OS but a grown structure. If you like to keep code
>> maintainable for a long time, you need to clean up the thicket from time
>> to time.

>I couldn't agree more. Now, why do you oppose cleaning up
>the "use scsi as everyone's mid layer" hack and putting a
>better generic abstraction in place ?

I never said this.

I would like to see a integrated aproach where the mid level prevents something
like ide-cd to access ATAPI drives. In this case, there is a unique address
space and generic SCSI transport systems like libscg will be able to work
in a way that is easy to understand by outsiders and does not force me to add
one workaround after the other.

Jörg

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