linux-kernel - Re: What still uses the block layer?

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Message-ID: <20071015085210.GA23589@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:52:10 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...eleye.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...e.de>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Nick Piggin <piggin@...erone.com.au>
Subject: Re: What still uses the block layer?

On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 11:00:15PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> If you hate USB storage devices using scsi, please use the ub driver,
> that is what it was written for.

The ub driver is a really dumb piece of shit.  It only drivers usb storage
devices using a scsi protocol set, and duplicates the scsi stack in a very
suboptimal way.

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