From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262367AbTFBOls (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:41:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262371AbTFBOls (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:41:48 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:30182 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262367AbTFBOlq (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:41:46 -0400 Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver From: Alan Cox To: Andre Hedrick Cc: Jeff Garzik , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1054562206.7494.11.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 02 Jun 2003 14:56:47 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Llu, 2003-06-02 at 10:46, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Linus, my professional opinion is to follow Jeff's direction for 2.5/2.6. > This will allow Linux to push open source to the hardware vendors. > There are several bastardized scsi-ide drivers in ./scsi. > > pci2000.c,h :: pci2220i.c,h :: psi240i.c,h + psi_*.h :: eata* megaraid, i2o, 3ware, aacraid all also drive IDE devices too now Promise new driver is using the scsi layer as well (because they do command queuing as well as drive tagged queue stuff). I've been hacking on the SI stuff a bit and its also apparent our IDE PATA layer won't support that well in a hurry either since it also has command buffering.