On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
>>Hmm.. Well, if the feature is not something common, then it
>>wouldn't qualify to get put in I suppose. Common features
>>between many devices should have a common API though.
>
>Good. You're now describing (to the best of my knowledge) the current
>situation. In the case of SCSI, we have the SCSI drivers for each SCSI
>controller, which use an additional layer of SCSI code, plus the
>generic SCSI driver. This last one handles features that "don't
>qualify" for a common API. 'nuff said ?
>
>Oh, did I mention that you can probably destroy some SCSI devices with
>sg ?
Well, then we have 2 issues here. The "grand OS" issue, and the
"real world I don't want my system to fry" issue. I fully stand
for the grand OS issue (or else I wouldn't be using Linux in the
first place), but I don't want my system to fry either.
I can't enforce that on anyone else though, but thanks to Linux
being GPL, I can always fix my own system how I see fit. I
suppose the vendors can apply the patch on their own as well,
since they patch everything allready usually anyways.
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