From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] ide: locking improvements Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:39:44 +0200 Message-ID: <200810111339.44998.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <48F010AB.7010009@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.184]:12424 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751944AbYJKLl4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:41:56 -0400 Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g7so814886muf.1 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:41:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48F010AB.7010009@shaw.ca> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Hancock Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 11 October 2008, Robert Hancock wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >> Sorry, but I just have to ask 'why'? IDE is seeing a whole lot of churn > >> for something that should essentially be a stable code base in > >> maintenance mode, and now scalability improvements? > > > > It is the stable code but being in "maintenance only mode" has never > > been true and as long as there are active users & developers there is > > really no reason to change it. > > Are there really many active users at this point? I'm not aware of any > new distributions that are using it. The only people I can see that > might still want to be using it would be people with old setups or old > embedded devices.. many of those wouldn't be using newer kernels anyway. Like I said before: as long as there are any active users/developers there is no real reason to stop IDE improvements (especially since there is no complete replacement available). I also wouldn't worry that much about what some distros are doing. They are free to make their own decisions based on whatever criteria they like. > These kinds of changes only will really help scalability on multi-core > machines which are unlikely to be using this code anyway.. They seem >>From my perspective the main gain of these patches is the increased maintainability and sanity of the code, scalability improvements are just an added bonus. > rather like putting makeup on a corpse to me.. Please refrain from such comments. Not only the metaphor is completely bogus but it may sound disrespectful to some IDE developers. Thanks, Bart