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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 20:50:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080526205021.12ef7948@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805272114.12763.bzolnier@gmail.com>

> I tend to disagree:
> 
> - there is nothing wrong with using an older kernel for rescue operations
>   on MFM/RLL drives

Older kernels don't boot on a lot of modern hardware.

> - it should be relatively easy to add MFM/RLL support to IDE subsystem
>   or libata layer (or even both)

I'm working on a libata driver when I get bits of time but it is not
trivial because stuff like device probe is totally different,
multi-write/multi-read are different, some of the command set is
different and even some of the task file registers are different.

> If there is no consensus about hd.c removal I think that the appropriate
> alternative would be to move it to drivers/block/ as it has nothing to do
> with IDE subsystem code.

Thats true enough.

Alan

      reply	other threads:[~2008-05-26 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-19 21:53 [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY Adrian Bunk
2008-05-19 21:50 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-27 19:14   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-05-26 19:50     ` Alan Cox [this message]

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