From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hinds <dhinds@sonic.net>,
"Hesse, Christian" <mail@earthworm.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: IRQ problem with PCMCIA
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:32:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124706770.7281.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58cb370e050822022556595fa1@mail.gmail.com>
On Llu, 2005-08-22 at 11:25 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> CardBus IDE devices work just fine but there are still issues with
> hotplug support (work in progress).
"work in progress". Yes because I submitted working IDE cardbus hotplug
support, and Mark Lord submitted a Delkin driver both of which worked
months ago rather nicely and neither of which hit the Bartlomiej stone
wall and never got in and are now stale patches.
> > up ever getting those into the kernel. Please wait instead for the new
> > SATA/ATA layer to develop hotplug support.
>
> This is just a FUD to discourage people from working on IDE drivers.
> Alan is doing this on purpose and doesn't really want to improve things.
Its a realistic assessment based upon over ten years working on the
Linux kernel. I do not believe you are capable of fixing the old IDE
code. But don't take that personally I am sceptical than anyone can fix
the old IDE code.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-22 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-21 18:43 IRQ problem with PCMCIA Hesse, Christian
2005-08-21 22:17 ` David Hinds
2005-08-21 22:19 ` David Hinds
2005-08-22 0:38 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-22 9:25 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-08-22 10:32 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-08-22 10:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-08-22 11:30 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-22 11:47 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-08-23 7:49 ` Erik Mouw
2005-08-23 10:31 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-23 13:26 ` Erik Mouw
2005-08-23 9:20 ` Andre Hedrick
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