From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753013Ab0BALGf (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 06:06:35 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:42507 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751095Ab0BALGe (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 06:06:34 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:07:23 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: David Miller Cc: jeff@garzik.org, bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/68] ide2libata Message-ID: <20100201110723.54870f7f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100131.234726.124893364.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100129160308.21495.14120.sendpatchset@localhost> <4B6355DF.9050001@garzik.org> <20100129232540.41f6c4f6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100131.234726.124893364.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.18.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The cost and risk is testing the morphing changes, but I think the > scales tip towards making this truly worth it. The cost and risk is taking two stable and quite maintainable stacks and turning them into one unmaintainable broken one.. I'm a little surprised that the old IDE layer which was supposed to be maintenance only is getting this treatment - except for the research value of seeing what the differences are in the drivers. I'm amazed that you'd suggest trashing the current ATA stack to make the maintenance of the old ones easier - which aren't supposed to be in flux in the first place. Alan