Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver
From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 13:03:01 EST
Jens Axboe wrote:
On Mon, May 26 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
What does the block layer need, that it doesn't have now?
Exactly. I'd _love_ for people to really think about this.
In discussion with Jeff, it seems most of what he wants is already
there. He just doesn't know it yet :-)
Another important point is time.
I continue to agree that a native block driver is the best direction.
But with 2.6.0 looming, I think it's best to evolve my ATA driver to be
a native block driver from a scsi one. Not start out as a native
driver. That's significant pre-2.6 churn.
Or, it lives out-of-tree until 2.7 and people with SATA hardware have to
go out-of-tree for their driver for months and months, until the working
driver is deemed sufficiently native :) In the meantime, distros
wanting working SATA will just ship the SCSI driver as-is. :(
Jeff
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/