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

[bill davidsen]

In article <200401052200.i05M0vnm002436@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mikael Pettersson  <mikpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:12:42 -0500, Willem Riede wrote:
| >I know that many feel that ide-scsi is useless, and should go away.
| >And you are probably tired of message threads talking about it.
| >Yet I ask respectfully that you hear me out, and give me feedback.
| >
| >I need ide-scsi to survive. Why? I maintain osst, a driver for
| >OnStream tape drives, which need special handling. These drives
| ...
| >So can we agree to keep ide-scsi? I know it is not desired any
| >more for cd writers. To avoid the problem reports from people who
| >don't realize that and select ide-scsi anyway, we can refuse to
| >attach to a cd-type device (today it just warns). And/or make a 
| >new explicit module parameter to tell ide-scsi exactly which 
| >drives to attach to.
| 
| I have a simple patch to do exactly that. Contact me if you want it.

I interpret a recent note to say that Willem Riede is provisional
maintainer, so please send him what you have. It would be great to get
some of the personal fixes into the code base.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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