Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755363Ab1EXTjU (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 15:39:20 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:60821 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751001Ab1EXTjT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 15:39:19 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=hCmH2pd1YTXc4GleCSd2n4y5b8X7ENtEBfoXOalyiUdn/68JPffm41U/51einqtAdT dgirpmKo1mDR2a3Qs9LOhxOIrUD3/Q3QfYDbYkx8ZKFcWYAmjEvClpY3ZTf+Yuy/x2iu wtQAn3HpKFHnasuRgzJFxgvPpykt6/blS/Fog= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4DDBFC30.6030201@fusionio.com> References: <4DDBF40E.7020003@fusionio.com> <4DDBFC30.6030201@fusionio.com> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 21:39:17 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: E0V2hnvfYntku0N-IwFTbqaXInE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Start of removal of legacy parallel interfaces for 3.0 From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Jens Axboe Cc: Linus Torvalds , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , David Miller , Chris Mason Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1553 Lines: 43 On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 20:42, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 2011-05-24 20:37, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> 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. NAK. >> 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? I wouldn't object to that one. Finally a good reason to kick admins who still run 32-bit distros on 64-bit machines ;-) Serious... Rumor says there's even a new 32-bit ABI for x86... Gr{oetje,eeting}s,                         Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.                                 -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/