Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:30:15 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5 IDE cleanup 11 |
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Alan,
Sorry I forgot to include the patch.
Andre Hedrick Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > This is the next round of IDE driver cleanups. > > > > How about fixing the stuff you've already messed up (like putting the > > drive present flags and the probe return back) ? The changes you made > > to the init code also broke the framework so that 2.5 would eventually > > let you do > > > > open("/dev/cdrom") > > read/write > > close("/dev/cdrom") > > open("/dev/sda") /* Same device */ > > burn a cd > > > > without loading/unloading modules > > > > I'm also confused how you plan to fix the hot swap case after your changes > > because you've not allowed for the fact drives might be hot swapped while > > you are suspended. The old code was careful to keep the hooks for that > > ready. > > > > Finally you forgot to update the MAINTAINER entry since you've now clearly > > decided to walk over Andre and become the IDE maintainer > > > > Alan > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > Alan, > > Please let me correct this issue as now I am going to start new driver > since this one is now beyond repair for me. > > Regards, > > Andre Hedrick > Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
--- linux-2.5.5-pristine/MAINTAINERS.orig Thu Feb 21 13:26:44 2002 +++ linux-2.5.5-pristine/MAINTAINERS Thu Feb 21 13:30:56 2002 @@ -697,13 +697,9 @@ S: Supported IDE DRIVER [GENERAL] -P: Andre Hedrick -M: andre@linux-ide.org -M: andre@linuxdiskcert.org +P: Martin Dalecki +M: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com> L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -W: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ -W: http://www.linux-ide.org/ -W: http://www.linuxdiskcert.org/ S: Maintained IDE/ATAPI CDROM DRIVER @@ -1523,6 +1519,16 @@ L: vtun@office.satix.net W: http://vtun.sourceforge.net/tun S: Maintained + +SATA/PATA/ACB DRIVER [ALL] +P: Andre Hedrick +M: andre@linux-ide.org +M: andre@linuxdiskcert.org +L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org +W: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ +W: http://www.linux-ide.org/ +W: http://www.linuxdiskcert.org/ +S: Future Creation U14-34F SCSI DRIVER P: Dario Ballabio
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