From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751881AbeCOIFA (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2018 04:05:00 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:39903 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751481AbeCOIE4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2018 04:04:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:04:55 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ondrej Zary Cc: Christoph Hellwig , axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] block: remove the paride drivers Message-ID: <20180315080455.GA12388@lst.de> References: <20180315075256.25652-1-hch@lst.de> <201803150904.25087.linux@rainbow-software.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201803150904.25087.linux@rainbow-software.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 09:04:24AM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: > On Thursday 15 March 2018, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > The paride drivers are some of the cruftiest, grottiest block drivers > > (besides drivers/ide and floppy.c) and have seen one single targeted > > commit since the dawn of git in 2007. Drop them to make block layer > > improvements easier. > > This will make my parallel port ZIP and LS-120 drives useless :( So you are still using them and the code actually works properly?