From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
Roberto Nibali <ratz@drugphish.ch>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about the ide related ioctl's BLK* in 2.5.7-pre1 kernel
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:51:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C909CE5.4020706@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C9007F5.1000003@drugphish.ch> <3C900A11.55BA4B32@zip.com.au> <3C90939E.4070409@evision-ventures.com> <3C909AEE.1020401@mandrakesoft.com>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Martin Dalecki wrote:
>
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>> Roberto Nibali wrote:
>>>
>>>> What for are BLKRAGET, BLKFRAGET and BLKSECTGET still needed?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> They got collaterally damaged in the IDE "cleanup". The patch at
>>> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.6/dallocbase-10-readahead.patch
>>>
>>> resurrects them.
>>
>>
>>
>> This is WRONG. What I did here was just removal of unused code.
>> They got obsoleted by the BIO infrastructure changes.
>
>
> Martin,
>
> Did Andrew really deserve that?
>
> Andrew's patch -implements- those ioctls.
>
> Can our new IDE maintainer please have a little bit more patience and
> respect to those who have been hacking the kernel actively for a while?
> Andrew certainly has earned our respect... calling changes wrong without
> reading them does not.
It was just a note on the who "broke them". However I welcome his
efforts to actually implement the functionality in a clean manner.
Still something unclear? I wish not?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-14 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-14 2:16 Question about the ide related ioctl's BLK* in 2.5.7-pre1 kernel Roberto Nibali
2002-03-14 2:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-14 8:00 ` Roberto Nibali
2002-03-14 8:13 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-14 12:04 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-14 20:04 ` Roberto Nibali
2002-03-18 13:28 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-18 13:34 ` Jens Axboe
2002-03-18 13:43 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-18 13:51 ` Jens Axboe
2002-03-14 12:12 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-14 12:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-14 12:51 ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
2002-03-14 17:38 ` Andrew Morton
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