Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758034AbYJKCed (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:34:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753598AbYJKCeY (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:34:24 -0400 Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca ([64.59.134.9]:5247 "EHLO idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753549AbYJKCeX (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:34:23 -0400 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.0 c=0 a=SmKHnM6mZOTrap3UHxYA:9 a=W0Ij-1B8dzOlidYk8aTd-MY6QXQA:4 Message-ID: <48F010AB.7010009@shaw.ca> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:34:19 -0600 From: Robert Hancock User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: Jens Axboe , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] ide: locking improvements References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1130 Lines: 22 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >> Sorry, but I just have to ask 'why'? IDE is seeing a whole lot of churn >> for something that should essentially be a stable code base in >> maintenance mode, and now scalability improvements? > > It is the stable code but being in "maintenance only mode" has never > been true and as long as there are active users & developers there is > really no reason to change it. Are there really many active users at this point? I'm not aware of any new distributions that are using it. The only people I can see that might still want to be using it would be people with old setups or old embedded devices.. many of those wouldn't be using newer kernels anyway. These kinds of changes only will really help scalability on multi-core machines which are unlikely to be using this code anyway.. They seem rather like putting makeup on a corpse to me.. -- 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/