From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964986AbWLMOBd (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:01:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964985AbWLMOBc (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:01:32 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]:35734 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964983AbWLMOBb (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:01:31 -0500 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=qGyFqJe/kqnUk/axh9S1eFqBx9QZFwFAAfpRhJVNDIz5vT0mhyuRJhB61f9oxP9qIyFDy4pMyiX2ABTJnIZzYv3T7pyXz61HfHXjdK62ydv08MEj/H+aKVuvqfqWpHbHL6iKnlrSQCcUrD0bgE81Luy3lyOMGmZJVZcYegKC9KI= Message-ID: <58cb370e0612130601w72c4cf73m45f26c74103f2231@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:01:29 +0100 From: "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" To: Alan Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver Cc: "Sergei Shtylyov" , akpm@osdl.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20061213113248.06372806@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200612130148.34539.sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> <20061212234145.557cb035@localhost.localdomain> <58cb370e0612121709x41270fb2p20280cc1edc9c533@mail.gmail.com> <20061213113248.06372806@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/13/06, Alan wrote: > > > Waste of space having a busproc routine. The maintainer removed all the > > > usable hotplug support from old IDE so this might as well be dropped. > > > > I took over IDE when hotplug was already broken (late 2.5), moreover IDE > > hotplug support has been always a quick hack according to its original author... > > I remember your great efforts to fix it but unfortunately they > > depended on executing > > ioctls on non-existing devices which made them depend on layering > > violation in 2.6, > > Bart, I'm really not interested in a 500 email rehash of the fact you > chose to refuse the hotplug support (that was working) for 2.6.x. You > did, the world has moved on, and there is no point putting a busproc > function in that driver. Unfortunately it seems that not everybody has moved on. It is not about your not accepted patches but about "the maintainer removed all the usable hotplug support from old IDE" false accusations which are unproven and untrue. Bart