From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:51:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1485888674.3199.49.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bbe16fc1-5652-bbc2-03a5-0298c3f16645@kernel.dk>
On Tue, 2017-01-31 at 10:02 -0800, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 01/31/2017 07:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig 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/?
I thought the primary objection was actually embedded in that libata
with its reliance on SCSI was just too large a dependency, so they have
to keep using drivers/ide. Perhaps nvme and flash is obviating this
problem and we can ask them again, though?
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-31 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-31 15:57 remove the cmd_type field from struct request Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 01/10] scm_blk: remove unneeded REQ_TYPE_FS check Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 02/10] ѕd: remove pointless " Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 03/10] mmc: remove pointless request type check in mmc_prep_request Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 04/10] ms_block: remove pointless prep_fn Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 05/10] mspro_block: " Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 06/10] nbd: remove REQ_TYPE_DRV_PRIV leftovers Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 07/10] nbd: move request validity checking into nbd_send_cmd Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 08/10] block: introduce blk_rq_is_passthrough Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 09/10] ide: don't abuse cmd_type Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 16:11 ` David Miller
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 10/10] block: fold cmd_type into the REQ_OP_ space Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 18:02 ` remove the cmd_type field from struct request Jens Axboe
2017-01-31 18:51 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2017-01-31 18:58 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2017-01-31 21:09 ` Jens Axboe
2017-02-01 6:53 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-02-01 10:55 ` Sergei Shtylyov
[not found] ` <CGME20170201103729epcas1p12708473d0e5257bef65e1d92712af885@epcas1p1.samsung.com>
2017-02-01 10:37 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2017-01-31 21:07 ` Jens Axboe
2017-02-01 2:58 ` Martin K. Petersen
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