Re: Let's get rid of ide-scsi

[Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>]

Alex Davis wrote:
> I think we should get rid of ide-scsi.
> 
> Reasons:
> 1) It's broken.
> 2) It's unmaintained.
> 3) It's unneeded.
> 
> I'll submit a patch if people agree.
> 
> I code, therefore I am

I personally do not agree with this.  I worked on at boot disk(floppy) which
contained the kernel and modules to find a cdrom (or usb disk) and use it as
my 2nd stage.  If I had to use ide-cd, I would not beable to do my first
stage loader on a single floppy (I support ide and scsi cdroms via sr-mod).

ide-cd.ko is > than sr-mod.ko + ide-scsi.ko

I am aware that scsi_mod.ko is larger than those 3 combined and I still need
it regardless for usb.

My personal vote would be to drop the entire ide subsystem which would thus
drop ide-scsi.  The SCSI layer has been a general block device layer for
more than true scsi devices.  USB, Firewire, and SATA use the scsi layer. 
And as I understand it, libata is starting to handle PATA devices.  Once it
can handle PATA fine, the ide code would pretty much be useless.

I am also against the seperate USB block layer, I personally saw no use in
it.

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