From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <1485888674.3199.49.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Subject: Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request From: James Bottomley To: Jens Axboe , Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:51:14 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: <1485878251-6107-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 List-ID: On Tue, 2017-01-31 at 10:02 -0800, 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 libata that would need to be added, before we can git rm > drivers/ide/? I thought the primary objection was actually embedded in that libata with its reliance on SCSI was just too large a dependency, so they have to keep using drivers/ide. Perhaps nvme and flash is obviating this problem and we can ask them again, though? James