Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270987AbTHGUv4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 16:51:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270986AbTHGUv4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 16:51:56 -0400 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:10385 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270987AbTHGUvz (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 16:51:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 22:51:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: cc: Subject: ide-tape broken (was Re: [PATCH] use ide-identify.h, fix endian bug) In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Length: 824 Lines: 23 On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > Given ide-identify.h, we can simplify ide-floppy.c and ide-tape.c a lot. > In fact ide-tape.c was broken on big-endian machines. > (Unfortunately much more is broken that was fixed here, > ide-tape.c is not in a good shape today.) ide-tape is broken because nobody cares, so I don't care too (was broken even before). It needs rewrite and testing. So once again if anybody cares and has hardware to test, please contact me and I will try fix it. Until then I don't touch it et all and consider it obsoleted. --bartlomiej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/