From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:32:37 +0300 Message-ID: <493BA645.80907@ru.mvista.com> References: <20081203103856S.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <200812070040.49377.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20081206235124.00fe60fc@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <200812070156.37057.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20081207011417.0b340b42@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from h155.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:15156 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753237AbYLGKcq (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2008 05:32:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081207011417.0b340b42@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dan_?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?No=E9?= , James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , FUJITA Tomonori , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, osst@riede.org Hello. Alan Cox wrote: >>> You could just stop turning the old IDE driver into an experimental >>> >> I find your mail offensive/unfair and I'm not going to discuss things >> at such level if you're going to continue in this style. >> > > I think the number of changesets and the amount of change versus the > amount of new functionality speaks for itself. > The ID core has suffered from to much negliction, so it indeed needed many changes (and when the loocking problems that you kept compalining about are finally being dealt with, everybody starts screaming to stop changing the old code because IDE is going to die soon (as if we had a non SCSI emulting ATA disk driver after 5 years past the libata merging). What libata people have been really successful at during this time (I don't include the SATA work here) is brainwashing everybody (even in the non carrier grade embedded sector) that libata is good for just about everything... As for the new features, what features are really lacking (except the polled mode)? > Alan > MBR, Sergei