On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, David Schwartz wrote:
>> The motherboard does not issue commands to your hard disk.
>> Software running on your computer does. In this case, the Linux
>> kernel.
>
> Yes, the motherboard passes whatever commands it is told to pass to the
>hard disk, without checking whether they comply with the standard or not.
>Similarly, Linux passes whatever commands it is told to pass to the hard
>disk, without checking whether they comply with the standard or not.
>
> You are defining standards compliance in a very peculiar way just to win
>this argument.
No, sorry. I don't really care about arguing one way or the
other. It is more opinion than anything. I see an I/O out to
the hard disk as something that should go to the hard disk, I see
a request to a kernel API as something the kernel should look
at. If the kernel merely passes everything to the raw device,
why have the API in the kernel at all?
I don't need to 'win' anything here. We can both have our
viewpoint without having to convince each other. Nobody 'wins'
or loses really.
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