From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751652AbdAaSDQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:03:16 -0500 Received: from mail-pf0-f182.google.com ([209.85.192.182]:34097 "EHLO mail-pf0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751309AbdAaSCx (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:02:53 -0500 Subject: Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request To: Christoph Hellwig References: <1485878251-6107-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:02:50 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1485878251-6107-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/31/2017 07:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > [1] which were a pain in the ass to untangle and debug during development, > it's really time for it to die.. Outside of the patch series in question, how to we expedite the euthanasia of IDE? What explicit features/support are we missing through libata that would need to be added, before we can git rm drivers/ide/ ? -- Jens Axboe