Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 12:50:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org> Cc: Willie Viljoen <will@highveldcs.com>, Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com>, jstocker@tzi.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI/SCSI emulation in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207141241250.58654-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20020714213802.A81207@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
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About a year ago I pushed for this to be integrated and at that time there were lots of comments about "not being done correctly and it will be done corectly soon". well another year or so ha spassed and people are STILL having to apply the patches manually. Can I suggest that the code be applied now as is, and that if someone really doesn't like it they can fix it later when they get the time? It's one thong to say " It's not done right and hold off as I'm going to fix it" It's quite a different matter to say "Hold off on this functionality as I don't like it but I have no plans to produce any equivalent funcionality" On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Thomas Quinot wrote: > Le 2002-07-14, Willie Viljoen =E9crivait : >=20 > > Just to follow up, I went back to -STABLE after discovering I don't nee= d > > -current to do this (*slight sigh of reliefe*) >=20 > Yep, I do most ATAPI/CAM develoment on -STABLE machines. >=20 > > Thomas, ever consider asking for it to be committed into FreeBSD proper= , > > atleast maybe into -current? >=20 > This is being considered, but I am not the one who can make the decision > on this issue. If you'd like to see the code integrated into -CURRENT, > you should let S=F8ren know (sos@freebsd.org). >=20 > > The code is really good IMHO. Those ILLEGAL_REQUEST warnings come from > > that ATA driver, and they shouldn't scare anybody, but for the really > > paranoid, I'm sure they could be eliminated by some extra options for t= he > > ata(4) driver to allow us to silence error output (Soren?) >=20 > Well, the ATA driver just reports whatever error condition comes from > the drive. The real solution may involve modifying the SCSI device > drivers (cd/sa/da) so that they do not send commands that may not > work with specific targets, or filtering requests to translate them > into the restricted command set that ATAPI units support (this is > done in an ad hoc fasion in atapi-cam currently, but there is also > work in progress for a general command filtering framework in -CURRENT). >=20 > Thomas. >=20 > --=20 > Thomas.Quinot@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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