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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>,
	linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, geert@linux-m68k.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] block - ataflop.c: fix breakage introduced at blk-mq refactoring
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:41:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3596239b-3637-6ea7-d7d5-fe81d0c7604f@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4e827c-9163-9fff-dd20-cdd44432fda5@linux-m68k.org>

On 10/18/21 6:14 PM, Finn Thain wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
>>
>> Oh please, can we skip the empty words, this is tiresome and 
>> unproductive. Since you apparently have a much better grasp on this than 
>> I do, answer me this:
>>
>> 1) How many users of ataflop are there?
>>
>> 2) How big of a subset of that group are capable of figuring out where
>>    to send a bug report?
>>
> 
> Both good questions. Here are some more.
> 
> 3) How many users is sufficient to justify the cost of keeping ataflop 
> around?
> 
> 4) How long is the user count allowed to remain below that threshold, 
> before the code is removed?

I'm not interested in bot conversations. EOD.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-19  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-18 22:21 [PATCH RFC] block - ataflop.c: fix breakage introduced at blk-mq refactoring Michael Schmitz
2021-10-18 22:30 ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-18 22:51   ` Finn Thain
2021-10-18 23:07     ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-18 23:17       ` Finn Thain
2021-10-18 23:28         ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-19  0:14           ` Finn Thain
2021-10-19  0:41             ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2021-10-18 23:35   ` Michael Schmitz
2021-10-18 23:40     ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-19  0:42       ` Michael Schmitz
2021-10-19  0:44         ` Jens Axboe
2021-10-18 23:55     ` Omar Sandoval

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