From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752944AbeCOWhY (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:37:24 -0400 Received: from smtp-1b.atlantis.sk ([80.94.52.26]:42260 "EHLO smtp-1b.atlantis.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752924AbeCOWhX (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:37:23 -0400 From: Ondrej Zary To: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] block: remove the paride drivers Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:37:18 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 (enterprise35 0.20100827.1168748) Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20180315075256.25652-1-hch@lst.de> <20180315080455.GA12388@lst.de> <201803152304.40423.linux@rainbow-software.org> In-Reply-To: <201803152304.40423.linux@rainbow-software.org> X-KMail-QuotePrefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201803152337.18938.linux@rainbow-software.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 15 March 2018 23:04:40 Ondrej Zary wrote: > On Thursday 15 March 2018 09:04:55 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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? > > I don't use them daily, only occasionally. Last time they worked. > Checked now and it seems to work: Forgot that my ZIP drive uses the PPA driver, which seems to work too: # modprobe ppa [ 816.690602] ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x) [ 816.762167] ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit [ 816.763037] ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit [ 816.807658] scsi host4: Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface [ 816.926616] scsi 4:0:6:0: Direct-Access IOMEGA ZIP 100 D.08 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 816.987969] sd 4:0:6:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [ 817.054564] sd 4:0:6:0: Power-on or device reset occurred [ 817.158623] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 817.742723] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 817.745168] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: ATA command pass through(16) 85 06 20 00 05 00 fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 ef 00 [ 839.268575] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] Spinning up disk... [ 840.320383] ..ready [ 841.596371] sd 4:0:6:0: [sdb] 196608 512-byte logical blocks: (101 MB/96.0 MiB) [ 842.088415] sdb: sdb4 -- Ondrej Zary