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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 20:16:24 +0200
From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
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Subject: Re: IDE?
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On Fri, 2002-08-16 18:35:29 -0700, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208161822130.1674-100000@home.transmeta.co=
m>:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:

>     - in particular, it would only bother with PCI (or better)=20
>       controllers, and with UDMA-only setups.
[...]
> And then in five years, in Linux-3.2, we might finally just drop support=
=20
> for the old IDE code with PIO etc. Inevitably some people will still use=
=20

That's bad. Then, you're nailed to use old kernels without having
possibilities of recent kernels only because you're working with eg. old
Alphas, PCMCIA-IDE things or so? Bad, bad, badhorribly bad. Even it's
sloooow, there'll always some need for PIO-only controller support...

MfG, JBG

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