Re: The survival of ide-scsi in 2.6.x

[Pete Zaitcev]

> I need ide-scsi to survive. Why? I maintain osst, a driver for
> OnStream tape drives, which need special handling. These drives
> exist in SCSI, ATAPI, USB and IEEE1394 versions.

> One high-level driver, osst, handles all of them, and that's how
> it should be, right? For ATAPI, it relies on ide-scsi.
> 
> (By the way, ide-tape contains code for the ATAPI version, the 
> DI-30, but that code is old and has serveral known problems - 
> I'd like to see it removed - or at least deprecated - I will do 
> that myself later if people want me to.)

Based on my expirience with ide-tape, I would rather have it
killed instead. One neat trick to appease enemies of ide-scsi
might be to rename it into ide-scsi into ide-tape-bis.
Might even add DSC bit handling... But the ide-tape is too
ugly to live for sure.

-- Pete
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