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 1ED67C433EF for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:33:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238882AbhLWSdZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:33:25 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:44462 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235579AbhLWSdY (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:33:24 -0500 Received: from mail-io1-xd2b.google.com (mail-io1-xd2b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::d2b]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9BA91C061401 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:33:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-io1-xd2b.google.com with SMTP id y70so8249231iof.2 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:33:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel-dk.20210112.gappssmtp.com; s=20210112; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3TtGTsDOS1sv5VjAapnrKvw759mjru/5vHNygb4N0eQ=; b=JdTfLfrrGmDFScx/OQtMg7HYOPFuDdER34j5YkQsfD8NbSnAoJ1auYNe74thKI8HBQ ixj/9ym6KBf9zWCPoJpdIrjJXHgoNLqR3YpOacJNUxkGWkbUITQwybiRXtKaBfaoK3dn NVQMirY+aGB/9jMjOoxYati/9ByK7hxJm+NXHIunrT8yEz0vvGNZklxJWFdyj9FuAP3G hpn+pJu/VLfAoFePe4Ssyq8QHshR04SYAJmiz6FcYRUzD4kgsc3EZoVuJRNCLInH0DZz 1WDYaA40WPxL2iNUKQWTNLetZY8u3r13e5CqC//HrRX6+yo97z/FOQmvUb/Va0GFby59 ykRg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3TtGTsDOS1sv5VjAapnrKvw759mjru/5vHNygb4N0eQ=; b=bC4mQycr1abeF6T992wFQbASq34ow2z4OaQxknBXSi4VFXS5B/88ke8K37K/k/+6y6 BWP3GDEB7v224UK13/GZGYF38/BGKvcccOtiP567xYXcU5BUcWKg/OngJtjmRnD4vQYo kyHHDMooz1As9IJc0J3Ag0kx+/ZgAN5+xU/hnpHJOk8M4jdDllQ2Ke0ikWgMIeUZ/OeI n5mcirT45/2z2bhaYvfZ3qp68UlvRttXDiYa0K/ao7sNWMjfJVn2zyjI/fRsNIKrPUZg wHAr2mKUmXSoo6dlyaT9WtS+KM9CetgLaSMd68aQ8iXpjQGx+gHed1rvLYm2PPcQqJPG Jk2g== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533JNJKAzr0U/uh+p+bNEEIjIR+1HexHJ5Jb3Y+gL4Tm+D5bYt7q a3cdWbIwwvVjKjHWzpqRNnJ0wA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJydAZ45WTRPq5+RzQwSrvcrY4VGXEmM5jOIltHvqumauXgrJtdp1sDGKNOJCQQ5WH5IkXgfzw== X-Received: by 2002:a5d:81d3:: with SMTP id t19mr1829959iol.199.1640284403854; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:33:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.116] ([66.219.217.159]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a12sm2953694ilv.69.2021.12.23.10.33.23 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:33:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [RFC] remove the paride driver To: Ondrej Zary , Christoph Hellwig Cc: Tim Waugh , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-parport@lists.infradead.org References: <20211223113504.1117836-1-hch@lst.de> <202112231829.25658.linux@zary.sk> From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: <4f88a1e4-1bbb-1c32-79dd-389f18cb3fa4@kernel.dk> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 11:33:21 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <202112231829.25658.linux@zary.sk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Jens Axboe