Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 19:27:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 19:27:04 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:11270 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 19:27:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:34:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Marc-Christian Petersen cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IDE? In-Reply-To: <200208170058.39227.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1260 Lines: 32 On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > > I am beside my self with laughing, sorry :P > > I really can imagine what are you dreaming of. Like: Actually, you apparently can't. I'm dreaming of an IDE maintainer that people (including, very much, me) can work with. I don't know why, but IDE has pretty much since day one been a fairly problematic area, and has caused a lot more maintainer headache than the rest of the kernel put together.. There's been one fairly smooth IDE transition (the original transition from hd.c to ide.c), and calling even that "smooth" is pretty much all hindsight - at the time people thought it was horribly stupid to not allow big controversial changes to hd.c, and the resulting code duplication was considered a disaster. Right now it looks like Alan is at least for the moment willing to work on the IDE code, which is obviously great. I just wonder how long he'll stand it (he's maintained various IDE buglists etc issues for years, so we can hope). 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/