[PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Sun May 1 15:40:41 UTC 2011
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:40:25AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Are you sure the libata core can't see this ide controller and connect
> to it? That way you would use the scsi system if you do that and you
> would need a much smaller ide driver, perhaps being able to merge it
> with your scsi driver.
>
> We really don't want to write new IDE drivers anymore that don't use
> libata.
The blkvsc driver isn't an IDE driver, although it currently claims
the old IDE drivers major numbers, which is a no-no and can't work
in most usual setups. I'm pretty sure I already complained about
this in a previous review round.
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