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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
        Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
        Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Subject: Re: paride initialization cleanup
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 09:33:10AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 8/16/21 9:11 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> the paride drivers currently have a major Linux 1.x-style mess for
>> initializing the gendisks.  This series refactors them to be modular
>> and self-contained in preparation of error handling for add_disk.
>
> Hi Christoph,
>
> My understanding is that both the parallel port and IDE are obsolete 
> technologies. Is anyone still using the paride drivers?

It is fairly obsolete indeed.  But three years ago Ondrej still had
some and did test the blk-mq conversion.