SCSITaskDevice vs our own driver

[Charles Davis]

Steven Edwards wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Alexandre Julliard
> <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
>>> 1. Use the SCSITaskDevice interface. This is a CFPlugIn object provided
>>> by the driver (it's like a COM object). We have to get exclusive access
>>> (this requires all the handles to all device files to be closed, and the
>>> disk unmounted), and then we can send whatever SCSI commands we like.
>> I don't think we can realistically require the device to be unmounted.
>> Most apps will want to check for files too.
> 
> If that only leaves option 2. which would require the C++ driver, can
> or should it be hosted on winehq in another git tree? I am sure you
> would not want to keep it in the main wine tree but if it was hosted
> somewhere else on Winehq then we could package it with the Wine
> bundle.
> 
If I recall AJ's policy on choice of language, I'd think it would
probably end up in a separate tree, probably somewhere on WineHQ.