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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 21:14:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805272114.12763.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080519225018.1df63bef@core>

On Monday 19 May 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008 00:53:57 +0300
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > This was the oldest and most limited of the three IDE drivers we ship.
> 
> NAK - it isn't just an IDE driver it's an MFM/RLL driver as well. It's
> one of the few things suitable for rescuing ancient drives so should be
> retained.

I tend to disagree:

- there is nothing wrong with using an older kernel for rescue operations
  on MFM/RLL drives

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

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.

Thanks,
Bart

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-26 19:23 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 [this message]
2008-05-26 19:50     ` Alan Cox

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