Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:02:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:02:23 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-5-cust12.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.121.12]:38894 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:02:22 -0400 Subject: Re: IDE? From: Alan Cox To: Vojtech Pavlik Cc: Linus Torvalds , Anton Altaparmakov , Andre Hedrick , axboe@suse.de, bkz@linux-ide.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020821152725.A4351@ucw.cz> References:

<20020818131515.A15547@ucw.cz> <1029672964.15858.17.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20020821121747.A3801@ucw.cz> <1029936007.26411.3.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20020821152725.A4351@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 21 Aug 2002 15:06:18 +0100 Message-Id: <1029938778.26425.44.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: 831 Lines: 17 On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 14:27, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Even nicer? Easier to add new devices? Not having switch(deviceid) > everywhere? Don't know. I believe they're better. In any case it's a lot > of good work thrown away, yours or mine. :( I don't mind a few deviceid switches. I don't find them annoying and I'll take the stability of using known good code with the daft bits like the rate filter while loop fixed over the unknowns of changing the code. Once its in 2.4 and 2.5 and it works then I'm all ears, because at that point we can actively quantify and test for regressions - 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/