Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756868AbZJ3Br7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:47:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755081AbZJ3Br7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:47:59 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:33956 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754124AbZJ3Br6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:47:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4AEA45CE.2060708@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:47:58 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091014 Fedora/3.0-2.8.b4.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Robert Hancock , David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: update Kconfig text to mark as deprecated References: <4AE64FCC.4030102@gmail.com> <20091029.031344.102288703.davem@davemloft.net> <51f3faa70910291719kecb5edcp3b8812981b69acb1@mail.gmail.com> <20091030003232.6db3f8b8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091030003232.6db3f8b8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-14; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1278 Lines: 32 On 10/29/2009 08:32 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > IDE will self correct in time anyway - new hardware doesn't work with it, > newer embedded devices are also moving away from compact flash, so it'll > die of its own accord. > > As such while things like pmac support in libata will be nice I don't > think there is any need to go around obsoleting it or pressuring people > to move stacks. This has been my general policy... people will continue moving away from IDE over time. Not much need to do anything but let sleeping dogs lie. libata definitely needs pmac support, that is the really only big missing driver piece, IMO. On compatibility: while a compat ATA block device would be nice -- having a native Linux block driver for ATA disks has been a longstanding "want" since Day One -- a compat block device purely for these situations would be quite a bit of work for a tiny-and-shrinking userbase. And that totally ignores an idea of attempting compatibility with IDE's ATAPI setup, another huge can-o-worms. Jeff -- 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/