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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:38:55 -0600
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
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To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] ide: locking improvements
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> The work has already been done and it is a wortwhile work.  The risk is
> quite low (this is the statement based on rather deep understanding of
> IDE subsystem, the complete audit of all code-paths affected and all the
> testing experiences from Scalex86/me).
> 
> Moreover the patch won't be merged after few months of extra testing.
> 
> I feel that you still keep on questioning the point of improving IDE
> and insist on putting it into "bug-fixes only" mode.  If this is really
> the case I'm completely uninterested in discussing it any further.

What, exactly, is the point of making more than bug-fix-only changes to 
the IDE code today, when we have libata around which is a much better 
code base to work from? I'm afraid it still escapes me. I don't mean to 
denigrate the work that you and other people working on IDE are doing, 
but can't help but think there would be more productive outlets for it..
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