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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	petkovbb@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] ide: locking improvements
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:38:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F1552F.7090600@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810112046.23557.bzolnier@gmail.com>

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> The work has already been done and it is a wortwhile work.  The risk is
> quite low (this is the statement based on rather deep understanding of
> IDE subsystem, the complete audit of all code-paths affected and all the
> testing experiences from Scalex86/me).
> 
> Moreover the patch won't be merged after few months of extra testing.
> 
> I feel that you still keep on questioning the point of improving IDE
> and insist on putting it into "bug-fixes only" mode.  If this is really
> the case I'm completely uninterested in discussing it any further.

What, exactly, is the point of making more than bug-fix-only changes to 
the IDE code today, when we have libata around which is a much better 
code base to work from? I'm afraid it still escapes me. I don't mean to 
denigrate the work that you and other people working on IDE are doing, 
but can't help but think there would be more productive outlets for it..

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-12  1:39 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>
     [not found]   ` <fa.8TkQ+xA96EhlNKL9gIbVTxVrcUE@ifi.uio.no>
2008-10-11  2:34     ` [PATCH 0/7] ide: locking improvements Robert Hancock
2008-10-11 11:39       ` 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 [this message]
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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