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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:54:16 +0200
From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>, aia21@cantab.net, axboe@suse.de,
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Subject: Re: IDE?
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On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 12:26:38PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Aug 17, 2002  06:02 -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> > 	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.
> 
> Why don't we just start with the now-discarded 2.5 IDE code as IDE-TNG?
> If people want to develop/hack then they can use that, and if they
> want to hack on other things they use the old code.  You just need to
> make the two config options mutually exclusive until the drivers learn
> to play well together (by being able to control separate drives/ctrlr).

Well, because it might be easier to just start from scratch.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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