Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 08:13:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 08:13:38 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-5-cust12.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.121.12]:30964 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 08:13:38 -0400 Subject: Re: IDE? From: Alan Cox To: Vojtech Pavlik Cc: Linus Torvalds , Anton Altaparmakov , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org, Andre Hedrick , axboe@suse.de, bkz@linux-ide.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020818131515.A15547@ucw.cz> References:

<20020818131515.A15547@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 18 Aug 2002 13:16:04 +0100 Message-Id: <1029672964.15858.17.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 964 Lines: 23 On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 12:15, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > I'll make patches for 2.5 to bring the low-level driver cleanups back. > Not just piix.c - also aec62xx.c and amd74xx.c - the last one was in 2.5 > for a LONG time already and I'm not particularly happy it got lost. > > If desirable (What's your opinion, Alan?) I can make equivalent patches > for 2.4 as well. Look at 2.4.20-pre2-ac3 before you start doing that. A lot of cleanup has been done, although there is plenty more left. A starter is to fix the the ratemask/ratefilter stuff to not use silly while loops on the aec/amd drivers if you are hacking on those, stick in the static variables and document anything relevant looking. Simple stuff first. Alan - 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/