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 44524C433EF for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:17:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1348796AbhLWORz (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:17:55 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:43636 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S236840AbhLWORz (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:17:55 -0500 Received: from mail-io1-xd35.google.com (mail-io1-xd35.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::d35]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 290B5C061401 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 06:17:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-io1-xd35.google.com with SMTP id y16so7253162ioc.8 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 06:17:55 -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=F7r7p1EErNm4YxaJjTFbKpy+GYO9CxbmgfhS0erQfBE=; b=E6KQzzZQJ+f3ci+tXnkVn4cY69QbaxGmVbXXmsJfv+QG7koBsSNzzuaaAN+IqQnldP 8n8Hk6Jz3UdEsBYnRXcgRIUIa4jrh7WFwgy7jWltSeUQJceXooA1FifO48527O9K2gX/ EFgLgzjhGGS8UhIQAJPIZEowGmDVWq/8PTZvdVdHNch+1SoNbUWIyI/niu+xhH7lkT6z DQvdjrDQ5CO75bGRTF2v6Z0rfS4J1WL8lchzTlrVdsBnOg5ae1iJsLo68trkZAUmmdfi ZlDgWuN5sm6dDzacaSBRZaQB24yt8giVfH5iz8f7PFIdtqriUKKtmZxP1jay6tI2QXD/ 2qOw== 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=F7r7p1EErNm4YxaJjTFbKpy+GYO9CxbmgfhS0erQfBE=; b=vVXuTkqIrDLUdHjrk+CLS27pIDoIRcsx2+zd9l5AqxKS0pDFC1xqgfLa4Bvh8Y7jSJ N3tbMU4GUm9FiBLEecmKlgmC4AZpFa/Dz1+KPLr7nNIxwTtaYebR87fpuZiJZS+OHJOH 3PD78CZdvaCTP/WOP15ThoiuX9caNcTHslG444B4Van383S91BGHOnk5Xuc4pkD74J4e Kp3o6coXDQtsahfWrrx4HArh78X4kDYOY+niQhM7t3HyFSkyQCaCfVhTBnonuP0N6snM wtJAMm3+oUfIdCUv3iBPAO2T8mgOE/KDhPVOUSKjBU9xr8ru3D9T7JwwZoTYAkMK0fd0 UOvA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530RjUgVU1pG5qRtP6F7uSsr5sZERoS/QBeisoqCriLV2LazO0DF WADA8Yzb8hoaHk2tMYT0D5keDQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJw980d5Oo6+n7oGWaXfyqXyUD1eA/nVnsB+mVlrtsyE7Kv3GSFJgvSxKYZ9UlyQiu0JINuK4g== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6638:240b:: with SMTP id z11mr1286525jat.121.1640269074504; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 06:17:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.116] ([66.219.217.159]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h1sm3989811iow.31.2021.12.23.06.17.54 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 23 Dec 2021 06:17:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [RFC] remove the paride driver To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Tim Waugh , Ondrej Zary , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-parport@lists.infradead.org References: <20211223113504.1117836-1-hch@lst.de> From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 07:17:53 -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: <20211223113504.1117836-1-hch@lst.de> 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 4:35 AM, 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. It really should be removed imho. To give folks a chance to pipe up, might be more reasonable to queue it up post the 5.17 merge window. I expect a lot of people are going to be less attentive the next few weeks than usual, and that really isn't a lot of warning to give even with an -rc8 planned. -- Jens Axboe