Messages in this thread |  | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request | Date | Wed, 01 Feb 2017 11:37:26 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Tuesday, January 31, 2017 10:02:50 AM Jens Axboe wrote: > On 01/31/2017 07:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > [1] which were a pain in the ass to untangle and debug during development, > > it's really time for it to die.. > > Outside of the patch series in question, how to we expedite the > euthanasia of IDE? What explicit features/support are we missing through
When it comes to missing features/support there is still number of non-x86 host drivers not ported to libata (I'm slowly working on this as a side-task, any help would be much appreciated).
> libata that would need to be added, before we can git rm drivers/ide/ ?
I was trying to start the removal with [1] last year but it has been NAK-ed by DaveM who seems to want to keep drivers/ide/ forever [2].
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/4/409 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/8/423
Best regards, -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics
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