From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Hinds <dhinds@sonic.net>,
"Hesse, Christian" <mail@earthworm.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: IRQ problem with PCMCIA
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:32:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58cb370e05082203325eb55c03@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1124706770.7281.13.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On 8/22/05, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Llu, 2005-08-22 at 11:25 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > CardBus IDE devices work just fine but there are still issues with
> > hotplug support (work in progress).
>
> "work in progress". Yes because I submitted working IDE cardbus hotplug
> support, and Mark Lord submitted a Delkin driver both of which worked
> months ago rather nicely and neither of which hit the Bartlomiej stone
> wall and never got in and are now stale patches.
Your hotplug support was bad from design/maintainability/workability
POVs so got NAK-ed for a good reasons. Delkin driver can be integrated
soon.
"working nice" != "acceptable for kernel.org"
Because of "working nice" attitude IDE driver became such a mess.
> > > up ever getting those into the kernel. Please wait instead for the new
> > > SATA/ATA layer to develop hotplug support.
> >
> > This is just a FUD to discourage people from working on IDE drivers.
> > Alan is doing this on purpose and doesn't really want to improve things.
>
> Its a realistic assessment based upon over ten years working on the
> Linux kernel. I do not believe you are capable of fixing the old IDE
> code. But don't take that personally I am sceptical than anyone can fix
> the old IDE code.
I'll keep trying you can keep whining.
Bartlomiej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-22 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-21 18:43 IRQ problem with PCMCIA Hesse, Christian
2005-08-21 22:17 ` David Hinds
2005-08-21 22:19 ` David Hinds
2005-08-22 0:38 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-22 9:25 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-08-22 10:32 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-22 10:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2005-08-22 11:30 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-22 11:47 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-08-23 7:49 ` Erik Mouw
2005-08-23 10:31 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-23 13:26 ` Erik Mouw
2005-08-23 9:20 ` Andre Hedrick
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