On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > The new generic SG layer is CONFIG_SCSI=y "generic" in the current tree. > > Yeah. I know, I already talked to Jens about it - in order to be generic, > the BSG stuff really does end up having to be able to stand on its own, > since not everybody wants/needs the whole SCSI layer.
bsg looks really promising and it would be great if we can use it also for IDE driver. > > > obviously the older SCSI-ioctl layer) it should "just work". > > > > Agreed but IDE driver has never claimed to have full SAT layer and > > full SCSI-ioctl layer support has been provided only for ide-cd. > > I agree, and understand why it happened, but hope that maybe it can be > improved in the future, or at least the error returned earlier so that the > request will never even hit the ATA device at all if the IDE layer cannot > then handle it. This is _exactly_ how these requests were handled before commit 3d6392cfbd7dc11f23058e3493683afab4ac13a3. Reverting ide.c chunks is a safe solution for now (no SG_IO and friends for ide-floppy but this is how it was before this commit). Thanks, Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
