Re: [RFR] a new SCSI driver

[Jeff Garzik]

[e-mail] wrote:
>>Serial ATA is looming quickly on the horizon.  Both device and host
>>controller SATA implementations really lend themselves to behaviors
>>that have existed in SCSI for a while.  SATA even defines use of SCSI
>>Enclosure Services.
> 
> 
> Thinking ahead, by the 2.8 timescale, PATA could well be legacy hardware 
> which could be supported only by an 'old' IDE driver, much like we already
> have at the moment - I.E. we could remove the current 'old' IDE driver
> sometime during the 2.7 timescale, and support SATA only via the SCSI layer.
> 
> This would save having any more than the minimum SATA code going in to the
> existing IDE driver, and consolidate work in the future.        

I'm content to let evolution make these decisions...  predicting into 
the future isn't the best skill a technologist has :)

	Jeff