Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and givedev=/dev/hdX as device

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Feb 21 2005 - 12:41:16 EST


On Llu, 2005-02-21 at 15:25, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> I haven't looked closely but I've noticed that these fixes are accessing rq->bio
> directly which is a layering violation. Could you de-bio and submit them?
> [ AFAIR they are already splitted out in RHEL4 ]

Not in the near future.

> Speaking about ide-scsi, it will be undeprecated after I fix the locking.
> Rationale is that ide-scsi is _much_ simpler than ide-{cd,tape}.
> [ although it doesn't support all the hardware that ide-{cd,tape} do ]

And vice versa with ide-cd - not always for reasons I understand either.

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