From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751358AbVHVWU7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:20:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751341AbVHVWUQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:20:16 -0400 Received: from zeus1.kernel.org ([204.152.191.4]:8328 "EHLO zeus1.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751362AbVHVWT0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:19:26 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hOzhgTDhuT9euzGF0Qr+X+kwnpUhIlEFBM5eJ7k1dJ205j0+peOO0k75IN/JntlLvcwvwEjvtYhFl0tU7qoNm8B9cDbXGczB26wpARorf0uGlKAahGIPvLAT137lKMkGdbFotmNOwrsBHvUXmc5wcADZMbVUd7vS/ZQTFDC9oWo= Message-ID: <58cb370e05082203325eb55c03@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:32:55 +0200 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: IRQ problem with PCMCIA Cc: David Hinds , "Hesse, Christian" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org In-Reply-To: <1124706770.7281.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <200508212043.58331.mail@earthworm.de> <20050821221739.GA18925@sonic.net> <20050821221935.GB18925@sonic.net> <1124671082.1101.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <58cb370e050822022556595fa1@mail.gmail.com> <1124706770.7281.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 8/22/05, Alan Cox 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