From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 13:55:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7db63ea-7bae-8faf-b22e-42678018e04b@cogentembedded.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c61b9b98-8e4a-ac23-bf0c-002d112d5468@suse.de>
On 2/1/2017 9:53 AM, Hannes Reinecke 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.
Huh? What about Toshiba TC86C001 and TX4938/9, TI DaVinci? That's off the
top of my head only...
> 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.)
Or do you mean only the drivers SuSe is interested in?
[...]
> Cheers,
>
> Hannes
MBR, Sergei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-01 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-31 15:57 Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 01/10] scm_blk: remove unneeded REQ_TYPE_FS check Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 02/10] ѕd: remove pointless " Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 03/10] mmc: remove pointless request type check in mmc_prep_request Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 04/10] ms_block: remove pointless prep_fn Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 05/10] mspro_block: " Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 06/10] nbd: remove REQ_TYPE_DRV_PRIV leftovers Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 07/10] nbd: move request validity checking into nbd_send_cmd Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 08/10] block: introduce blk_rq_is_passthrough Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 09/10] ide: don't abuse cmd_type Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 16:11 ` David Miller
2017-01-31 15:57 ` [PATCH 10/10] block: fold cmd_type into the REQ_OP_ space Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-31 18:02 ` remove the cmd_type field from struct request Jens Axboe
2017-01-31 18:51 ` James Bottomley
2017-01-31 18:58 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2017-01-31 21:09 ` Jens Axboe
2017-02-01 6:53 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-02-01 10:55 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
[not found] ` <CGME20170201103729epcas1p12708473d0e5257bef65e1d92712af885@epcas1p1.samsung.com>
2017-02-01 10:37 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2017-01-31 21:07 ` Jens Axboe
2017-02-01 2:58 ` Martin K. Petersen
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