>H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>hen *please* make a *compatible* interface available to user space.
>This certainly can be done; the parallel port IDE interface stuff had
>exactly such an interface (/dev/pg*) -- we could have a /dev/hg*
>interface presumably. That is an acceptable solution.
I would not call the /dev/pg* nterface a cmpatible interface.
It has advantages to the interface in the ide-cdrom driver in being
able to talk to different types of drives at the end, but it is
another incompatible user interface.
>Note again that this discussion (and it's a discussion, not a voting
>session -- technical pros and cons is what applies) apply to ATAPI (SCSI
>over IDE) only. Alan has already brought up the fact of non-hard disk
>non-ATAPI devices, and IMO those devices are explicitly out of scope.
This is my idea too: CD-ROM drives should be accessed via ATAPI or
handled as ATA disk.
Jörg
EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1
schilling@fokus.gmd.de (work) chars I am J"org Schilling
URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Jul 15 2002 - 22:00:27 EST