From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:15:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:15:25 -0500 Received: from mail009.syd.optusnet.com.au ([203.2.75.170]:57832 "EHLO mail009.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:15:15 -0500 Message-ID: <007501c1c519$fe289010$0901010a@C5043436> From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" To: Subject: [PATCH] 2.5.6-pre2 IDE cleanup 16 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 00:46:52 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >MD> 2. It convinced me that the current task-file interface in linux >MD> is inadequate. So Alan please bear with me if your CF format >MD> microdrive will have to not wakeup properly for some time... >MD> The current mess will just have to go before something more >MD> adequate can go in. > >Why not keep the existing taskfile implementation in until you complete the >elegant implementation? seriously, ide has always been a joke for anyone serious in storage capacity or robustness. so what. if you were serious in using ide drives you would have been using external patches for quite a while anyway. nothings changed. Well, nothing, except that now, that there will be a much higher percentage of users that relies on external patches for ide to be useful or work at all time for someone actually has a clue on how modern ide drives works to have a say for a change...?