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Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 20:42:56 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Start of removal of legacy parallel interfaces for
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On 2011-05-24 20:37, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> 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.

Boy, you guys sure are humorless. I would've thought the reference to
killing SCSI next would be a good clue.

So we can't kill x86 32-bit either?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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