From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63FF7C433EF for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 17:36:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235671AbhLWRgc (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:36:32 -0500 Received: from hosting.gsystem.sk ([212.5.213.30]:56588 "EHLO hosting.gsystem.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S238045AbhLWRgc (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:36:32 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 421 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:36:32 EST Received: from [192.168.0.2] (chello089173232159.chello.sk [89.173.232.159]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hosting.gsystem.sk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 806287A0156; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:29:28 +0100 (CET) From: Ondrej Zary To: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC] remove the paride driver Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:29:25 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Jens Axboe , Tim Waugh , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-parport@lists.infradead.org References: <20211223113504.1117836-1-hch@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20211223113504.1117836-1-hch@lst.de> X-KMail-QuotePrefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <202112231829.25658.linux@zary.sk> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 23 December 2021 12:35:03 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi Jens, > > the paride driver has been unmaintained for a while and is a significant > maintainance burden, including the fact that it is one of the last > users of the block layer bounce buffering code. This patch suggest > to remove it assuming no users complain loduly. > > Ondrej: you're the last known users, so please speak up if you still > have a use case! Looks like I really need to do the libata conversion. -- Ondrej Zary