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

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Feb 12 2008 - 01:00:29 EST


On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 01:09:24AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
> On Monday 11 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Hi Bart,
> >
> > here's the ide_atapi_pc unification series. It all went pretty smoothly along
> > the search & replace line. Using driver-specific members in ide_atapi_pc like
> > idefloppy_callback and idetape_callback is kinda dumb but this approach seemed
> > the fastest versus unnecessary callback function signature change that will
> > touch stuff all over the place. Besides, ide-tape might be gone soon so that
> > would alleviate the problem.
>
> applied all four patches, thanks!
>
> > 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...

yeah, sure. ide-scsi simply will wander down the prio stack pushed by the other
stuff :)

> [ ide-scsi is orphaned and has (probably) unfixable problems (because of having

does this mean it might have a similar to idetape's destiny...?

--
Regards/Gruß,
Boris.
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