From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752017AbdBAKzk (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2017 05:55:40 -0500 Received: from mail-lf0-f51.google.com ([209.85.215.51]:36133 "EHLO mail-lf0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751192AbdBAKzi (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2017 05:55:38 -0500 Subject: Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request To: Hannes Reinecke , 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: Sergei Shtylyov Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 13:55:34 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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