From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 13:55:34 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1485878251-6107-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Hannes Reinecke , Jens Axboe , Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 2/1/2017 9:53 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >>> [1] which were a pain in the ass to untangle and debug during development, >>> it's really time for it to die.. >> >> Outside of the patch series in question, how to we expedite the >> euthanasia of IDE? What explicit features/support are we missing through >> libata that would need to be added, before we can git rm drivers/ide/ ? >> > There is only a single driver (sgi_ide) which hasn't been moved over to > libata. Huh? What about Toshiba TC86C001 and TX4938/9, TI DaVinci? That's off the top of my head only... > But this is for an old Itanium-based server only, and even SGI didn't > press us to have this ported. > (And we have disabled the IDE drivers since SLES11, where we still support > Itanium.) Or do you mean only the drivers SuSe is interested in? [...] > Cheers, > > Hannes MBR, Sergei