From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751389AbdBAGx3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2017 01:53:29 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:53993 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751004AbdBAGx1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2017 01:53:27 -0500 Subject: Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request To: Jens Axboe , 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: Hannes Reinecke Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 07:53:26 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/31/2017 07:02 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: > 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/ ? > There is only a single driver (sgi_ide) which hasn't been moved over to libata. But this is for an old Itanium-based server only, and even SGI didn't press us to have this ported. (And we have disabled the IDE drivers since SLES11, where we still support Itanium.) So they can be safely assumed defunct at this time. I'm all for removing them. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)