From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: straighten out the IDE layer locking and add hotplug
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:36:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092677759.21013.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408161923.19024.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>
On Llu, 2004-08-16 at 18:23, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Sunday 15 August 2004 17:13, Alan Cox wrote:
> > There really isnt any sane way to break this patch down because all the
> > changes are interlinked so closely.
>
> at least /proc/ide/hd?/settings:ide-scsi removal and doc fixes are very easy
> to separate, I also think that locking fixes should be separated from
> hotplugging ones
I continue to believe splitting the locking and hotplugging ones are
essentially impossible without inventing a fake never written version.
The other stuff can probably be done.
If you can let me know which bits you are going to apply I can work on
sorting out the rest. In the meantime I'll keep a -ac patch for people
who want to work on the IDE bits or who need the fixes and driver
updates.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-16 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-15 15:13 PATCH: straighten out the IDE layer locking and add hotplug Alan Cox
2004-08-16 17:23 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-16 17:36 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-16 22:29 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-16 21:43 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-16 21:48 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 13:12 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 14:05 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 14:30 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 15:05 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 15:33 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 14:40 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 14:12 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 14:18 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 14:35 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 16:11 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 20:40 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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