Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:54:16 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: IDE? |
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On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 12:26:38PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Aug 17, 2002 06:02 -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote: > > I just looked at the patch to switch to "2.4 forward port" > > version of drivers/ide. If I got my shell commands right, Martin's > > tree is 8606 lines shorter than the 2.4 forward port. > > > > 2.4 forward port 49,205 lines > > Martin's version 40,599 lines > > ------------ > > 8,606 lines difference > > > > It's often amazing how much cleaning up it takes to shrink > > code a little bit. Shrinking the IDE tree this much is a lot of > > work to throw away. > > > > In comparison, I think Niklaus Wirth's Modula-2 compiler for > > the Lilith machine was 5,000 lines. > > > > Is the 2.5.31 IDE tree that buggy? I would hope that stamping > > out bugs from Martin's tree would be less work than cleaning up > > the 2.4 version to that point again. > > Why don't we just start with the now-discarded 2.5 IDE code as IDE-TNG? > If people want to develop/hack then they can use that, and if they > want to hack on other things they use the old code. You just need to > make the two config options mutually exclusive until the drivers learn > to play well together (by being able to control separate drives/ctrlr).
Well, because it might be easier to just start from scratch.
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