Re: [PATCH 0/4] ide: generic packet command representation

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Fri Feb 15 2008 - 09:05:01 EST



On Feb 12 2008 01:09, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
>> On a different note, i noticed ide-scsi might also need a cleanup
>> similar to the other drivers. It is next on my TODO list in case
>> you don't have anything with a higher prio.
>
>I was actually hoping that you'll continue unifying ATAPI handling...
>
>[ ide-scsi is orphaned and has (probably) unfixable problems
> (because of having dependencies on both IDE and SCSI subsystems)
> so it is not worth IMO but I will of course accept patches... ]

So, why is ide-scsi still in the tree? Is there some use case besides
cdrecord? (Which can use /dev/hda already without the ide-scsi blob...)
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