Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757311Ab1EXSoj (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 14:44:39 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:48396 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755784Ab1EXSoi (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 14:44:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4DDBF40E.7020003@fusionio.com> References: <4DDBF40E.7020003@fusionio.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 11:37:08 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Start of removal of legacy parallel interfaces for 3.0 To: Jens Axboe Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , David Miller , Chris Mason Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1036 Lines: 26 On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: > > With the 3.0 kernel approaching, now is a great time to get rid of some > legacy bagage. And what better part to start with than the old IDE code. > Parallel interfaces are so 1990's, we can't be seen with those on a > fancy new kernel version. No. Guys. Really. Any version numbering change is *not* an excuse to drop any old stuff, or do anything new and exciting. If the IDE maintainer eventually decides that there really are zero users, that's a different thing, and will be independent of any version number change. Dropping truly dead code is always welcome, regardless of anything else. But it needs to be truly dead, not "wouldn't it be nice if we didn't carry this any more". Linus -- 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/