On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I will violently oppose anything that implies that the IDE layer uses the
> SCSI layer normally. No way, Jose. I'm all for scrapping, but the thing
> that should be scrapped is ide-scsi.
>
> The higher layers already have much of what the SCSI layer does, and the
> SCSI layer itself is slowly moving in that direction.
Oh, and users will violently oppose when you meddle with drivers and any
user-space application stops working because of dropping ide-scsi on the
floor. I have been using ide-scsi for ages to drive CD-ROM (mostly) and
it's not given me headaches. I like being able to access my CD-ROM as
/dev/scd0 regardless if it's SCSI or ATAPI, and if any troubles had
arrived on hardware no older than 1997, ide-scsi has solved it for me.
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