From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/24] ide-tape: remove pipelined mode operation Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 16:37:13 +0100 Message-ID: <20080301153713.GA30547@gollum.tnic> References: <1204361928-30229-1-git-send-email-petkovbb@gmail.com> <20080301102038.GC25835@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> Reply-To: petkovbb@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]:41402 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752773AbYCAPhd (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:37:33 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g13so2718455nfb.21 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:37:31 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080301102038.GC25835@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Adrian Bunk Cc: bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 12:20:38PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 09:58:24AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Hi Bart, > >=20 > > here's the 1st draft of the pipeline removal series. As the diffsta= t below openly > > states it, a lot of code got removed - even more than the cleanup s= eries we did > > earlier. > >... >=20 > After seeing commit d48567dd43868b3d2e1fcc33ee76dc2d38a1ddeb that=20 > schedules ide-tape for removal I'm wondering whether any cleanups of=20 > this driver make any sense at all: Hi Adrian, you're right and I'm expecting Bart's input on that. However, removing tape support in ide altogether is probably not the right thing to do an= d Bart wanted to keep some kind of a basic, ide-tape "light" version in s= o, yes, the above commit is misleading. Here's a fix, Bart please apply. -- =46rom 11c41d7760dd0b8f4cd1ab3076c86a2c4beec4de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 200= 1 =46rom: Borislav Petkov Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 16:31:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ide-tape: keep a light version in ide tree Keep a light version of the driver in for the small amount of ide tape hardware still using it. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 10 ---------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation= /feature-removal-schedule.txt index ba899ff..4d3aa51 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -172,16 +172,6 @@ Who: Len Brown =20 --------------------------- =20 -What: ide-tape driver -When: July 2008 -Files: drivers/ide/ide-tape.c -Why: This driver might not have any users anymore and maintaining it f= or no - reason is an effort no one wants to make. -Who: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Borislav Petkov - - ---------------------------- - What: libata spindown skipping and warning When: Dec 2008 Why: Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin --=20 1.5.4.1 --=20 Regards/Gru=DF, Boris.