From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264916AbTL1BvP (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:51:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264918AbTL1BvP (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:51:15 -0500 Received: from hq.pm.waw.pl ([195.116.170.10]:24764 "EHLO hq.pm.waw.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264916AbTL1BvO (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:51:14 -0500 To: Andre Hedrick Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.x CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES long dead References: From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 02:31:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Andre Hedrick's message of "Sat, 27 Dec 2003 15:11:27 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andre Hedrick writes: > Would you like to explain why they are gone? > Just to humor the oldman. I understand you refer to my mail (you know, that top-posting can be misleading). If "they" means zombies then they aren't gone yet, this is my patch which removes them, and it does so because the variable in question, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES, is not longer being referenced by the kernel code. If "they" means CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES config variable then, obviously, I don't know why it's no longer used, as I'm not the one who removed the references (for 2.4 it was in 2.4.21 patch, haven't checked 2.6, you may want to investigate it yourself). What I'm trying to do is cleaning up the 2.4 IDE mess as I really need modular IDE (with piix/via DMA) working. And I need it before the next Christmas, so waiting for libata doesn't seem to be an option. HTH. -- Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH