Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 24 May 2011 21:39:17 +0200 | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Start of removal of legacy parallel interfaces for 3.0 | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 20:42, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote: > On 2011-05-24 20:37, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote: >>> With the 3.0 kernel approaching, now is a great time to get rid of some >>> legacy bagage. And what better part to start with than the old IDE code. >>> Parallel interfaces are so 1990's, we can't be seen with those on a >>> fancy new kernel version.
NAK.
>> No. >> >> Guys. Really. >> >> Any version numbering change is *not* an excuse to drop any old stuff, >> or do anything new and exciting. > > Boy, you guys sure are humorless. I would've thought the reference to > killing SCSI next would be a good clue. > > So we can't kill x86 32-bit either?
I wouldn't object to that one. Finally a good reason to kick admins who still run 32-bit distros on 64-bit machines ;-)
Serious... Rumor says there's even a new 32-bit ABI for x86...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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