From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Start of removal of legacy parallel interfaces for 3.0 Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 20:42:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4DDBFC30.6030201@fusionio.com> References: <4DDBF40E.7020003@fusionio.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx2.fusionio.com ([66.114.96.31]:57963 "EHLO mx2.fusionio.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752696Ab1EXSnB (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 14:43:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , David Miller , Chris Mason On 2011-05-24 20:37, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: >> >> With the 3.0 kernel approaching, now is a great time to get rid of some >> legacy bagage. And what better part to start with than the old IDE code. >> Parallel interfaces are so 1990's, we can't be seen with those on a >> fancy new kernel version. > > No. > > Guys. Really. > > Any version numbering change is *not* an excuse to drop any old stuff, > or do anything new and exciting. Boy, you guys sure are humorless. I would've thought the reference to killing SCSI next would be a good clue. So we can't kill x86 32-bit either? -- Jens Axboe