Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5

From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 09:07:43 EST


> > > Because we can't tell Linux users "your (once favorite) CD-ROM is not
> > > implemented in Linux (any more), and will never ever be". If we explicitly
> > > exclude hardware, where do we end?!
> >
> > Like other mainstream operating systems :-)
> >
> > One thing that occurs to me, but that I don't necessarily think is a good idea,
> > is that for a long time we had "old" IDE code and "new" IDE code in the kernel,
> > and there is no reason why we couldn't do a similar thing, (I.E. have
> > a "legacy devices will work" foo driver, and "legacy devices might
>
> So we'd have a legacy driver called oh say 'ide-cd' and a current one
> called 'ide-scsi'.
>
> How does that change anything ?

Both of the existing drivers would become the legacy driver, and a new one would be forked from the legacy code, which abstracts the physical interface altogether. Eventually, we're going to have IDE, ATAPI (I.E. mostly non-disk IDE devices), SCSI, SASI(maybe :-)), USB, FireWire, Bluetooth, etc. The number of interfaces is just going to grow and grow.
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