From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 17:29:15 +0100 Message-ID: <200812061729.15895.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <20081203103856S.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <200812061551.08525.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20081206150625.224aa97f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]:40214 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751265AbYLFQbW (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2008 11:31:22 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so230917nfc.21 for ; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:31:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20081206150625.224aa97f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , FUJITA Tomonori , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, osst@riede.org On Saturday 06 December 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > ide-scsi has been practically a dead code for a long time now (IIRC it has > > even been broken -- by some general kernel changes -- for few releases and > > nobody noticed, till Boaz discovered it while doing unrelated SCSI fixes) > > but I kept it on the live support anyway. However there needs to be some > > limit to it, especially given that driver has been officially orphaned for > > over a year now and nobody stepped in... > > And it basically still works. You've just removed some hardware support > for folks still trapped with the old IDE legacy drivers and some tape > drives etc. Please note that I already offered to put my time into helping people potentially affected by the change. > I shall certainly be asking Linus not to apply your changeset. If you actually cared about such folks (whose must be really tough on their luck since both IDE/ide-tape and SCSI/libata/st+osst should cover 99.9% of tape drives) you would be proposing constructive solutions (i.e. offering better libata PATA support) instead of threats. Thanks, Bart PS Looking at the patch history since 2002 (I'm lazy I didn't look past tglx's tree) it was mostly Willem, James or me who paid the cost of keeping ide-scsi and were targetted with insane bugreports. Your actual ide-scsi contributions in the meantime are near non-existing and I think that it could account into the weight of your voice...