From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] ide: locking improvements
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:34:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F010AB.7010009@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.8TkQ+xA96EhlNKL9gIbVTxVrcUE@ifi.uio.no>
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.
These kinds of changes only will really help scalability on multi-core
machines which are unlikely to be using this code anyway.. They seem
rather like putting makeup on a corpse to me..
next parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-11 2:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <fa.5sGSpBgVBoMAsIwwLABWnjDzM38@ifi.uio.no>
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2008-10-11 2:34 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2008-10-11 11:39 ` [PATCH 0/7] ide: locking improvements Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-10-11 12:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-10-11 13:53 ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-11 14:45 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-10-11 15:05 ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-11 15:56 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-10-11 17:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-10-11 17:56 ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-11 17:56 ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-11 18:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-10-11 18:46 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-10-12 1:38 ` Robert Hancock
2008-10-12 9:05 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-10-08 20:29 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-10-09 6:51 ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-09 8:36 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-10-09 8:40 ` Jens Axboe
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