From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B360C433EF for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 22:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S240842AbhLWWfH (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2021 17:35:07 -0500 Received: from hosting.gsystem.sk ([212.5.213.30]:58286 "EHLO hosting.gsystem.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S245211AbhLWWeu (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2021 17:34:50 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (chello089173232159.chello.sk [89.173.232.159]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hosting.gsystem.sk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 678997A0089; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 23:34:49 +0100 (CET) From: Ondrej Zary To: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [RFC] remove the paride driver Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 23:34:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Tim Waugh , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-parport@lists.infradead.org References: <20211223113504.1117836-1-hch@lst.de> <202112231829.25658.linux@zary.sk> <4f88a1e4-1bbb-1c32-79dd-389f18cb3fa4@kernel.dk> In-Reply-To: <4f88a1e4-1bbb-1c32-79dd-389f18cb3fa4@kernel.dk> X-KMail-QuotePrefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <202112232334.46631.linux@zary.sk> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 23 December 2021 19:33:21 Jens Axboe wrote: > On 12/23/21 10:29 AM, Ondrej Zary wrote: > > On Thursday 23 December 2021 12:35:03 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> Hi Jens, > >> > >> the paride driver has been unmaintained for a while and is a significant > >> maintainance burden, including the fact that it is one of the last > >> users of the block layer bounce buffering code. This patch suggest > >> to remove it assuming no users complain loduly. > >> > >> Ondrej: you're the last known users, so please speak up if you still > >> have a use case! > > > > Looks like I really need to do the libata conversion. > > That would indeed be great! As mentioned in my reply, I don't want to > remove drivers that are actively being used. Is the libata conversion > something you are going to do, or is it more of a dream at this point? > Ideally we get that done first, and then remove paride. Haven't started yet. But I'm increasing its priority in my todo list. -- Ondrej Zary