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Date:   Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:04:55 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] block: remove the paride drivers
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 09:04:24AM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> On Thursday 15 March 2018, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > The paride drivers are some of the cruftiest, grottiest block drivers
> > (besides drivers/ide and floppy.c) and have seen one single targeted
> > commit since the dawn of git in 2007.  Drop them to make block layer
> > improvements easier.
> 
> This will make my parallel port ZIP and LS-120 drives useless :(

So you are still using them and the code actually works properly?