From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 06:02:16 -0700
Message-Id: <200208171302.GAA07962@adam.yggdrasil.com>
To: aia21@cantab.net, axboe@suse.de, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, m.c.p@wolk-project.de,
       torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: IDE?
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	I just looked at the patch to switch to "2.4 forward port"
version of drivers/ide.  If I got my shell commands right, Martin's
tree is 8606 lines shorter than the 2.4 forward port.

	2.4 forward port	49,205 lines
	Martin's version	40,599 lines
				------------
				 8,606 lines difference

	It's often amazing how much cleaning up it takes to shrink
code a little bit.  Shrinking the IDE tree this much is a lot of
work to throw away.

	In comparison, I think Niklaus Wirth's Modula-2 compiler for
the Lilith machine was 5,000 lines.

	Is the 2.5.31 IDE tree that buggy?  I would hope that stamping
out bugs from Martin's tree would be less work than cleaning up
the 2.4 version to that point again.

>If you can work with him, then it would seem he would be well suited for
>the job... Assuming he wants it... Bartlomiej?

	I'd be quite relieved if we could convince Bartlomiej to
adopt Martin's tree and continue with Martin's tree as at least
a configuration option.

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