From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753964AbcLHRLS (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 12:11:18 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:36790 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753878AbcLHRLQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 12:11:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 09:11:14 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: David Miller Cc: b.zolnierkie@samsung.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org, gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1) Message-ID: <20161208171114.GA29203@infradead.org> References: <3280015.pSoKvQuVNQ@amdc3058> <20161208.102308.460750923427290066.davem@davemloft.net> <5007114.YSRHeGyTgl@amdc3058> <20161208.113957.686350007074631834.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161208.113957.686350007074631834.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 11:39:57AM -0500, David Miller wrote: > They are not a maintainence burdon, I rarely get more than 1 patch > each merge window and most of the time those are cleanups or for the > handling of a kernel wide API change rather than bug fixes. They are a major maintainence burden for the block layer due to horrible abuse of all kinds of block layer APIs.