From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: petkovbb@gmail.com
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/24] ide-tape: remove pipelined mode operation
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:09:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803221709.05323.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080301153713.GA30547@gollum.tnic>
On Saturday 01 March 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 12:20:38PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 09:58:24AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > Hi Bart,
> > >
> > > here's the 1st draft of the pipeline removal series. As the diffstat below openly
> > > states it, a lot of code got removed - even more than the cleanup series we did
> > > earlier.
> > >...
> >
> > After seeing commit d48567dd43868b3d2e1fcc33ee76dc2d38a1ddeb that
> > schedules ide-tape for removal I'm wondering whether any cleanups of
> > this driver make any sense at all:
>
> Hi Adrian,
>
> you're right and I'm expecting Bart's input on that. However, removing
> tape support in ide altogether is probably not the right thing to do and
> Bart wanted to keep some kind of a basic, ide-tape "light" version in so,
> yes, the above commit is misleading.
>
> Here's a fix, Bart please apply.
>
> --
> From 11c41d7760dd0b8f4cd1ab3076c86a2c4beec4de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 16:31:17 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] ide-tape: keep a light version in ide tree
>
> Keep a light version of the driver in for the
> small amount of ide tape hardware still using it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
> ---
> Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 10 ----------
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
Since there was also an warning in the driver I reverted the original
commit instead.
>From ca4e2ab5b2764562fe3d41b95b27e6bbd4733d66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:44:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "ide-tape: schedule driver for removal after 6 months"
This reverts commit d48567dd43868b3d2e1fcc33ee76dc2d38a1ddeb.
Borislav is working on ide-tape "light" version instead.
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 10 ----------
drivers/ide/ide-tape.c | 5 -----
2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index c1d1fd0..bf0e3df 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -172,16 +172,6 @@ Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
---------------------------
-What: ide-tape driver
-When: July 2008
-Files: drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
-Why: This driver might not have any users anymore and maintaining it for no
- reason is an effort no one wants to make.
-Who: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>, Borislav Petkov
- <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
-
----------------------------
-
What: libata spindown skipping and warning
When: Dec 2008
Why: Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
index 43e0e05..0598ecf 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
@@ -3765,11 +3765,6 @@ static int ide_tape_probe(ide_drive_t *drive)
g->fops = &idetape_block_ops;
ide_register_region(g);
- printk(KERN_WARNING "It is possible that this driver does not have any"
- " users anymore and, as a result, it will be REMOVED soon."
- " Please notify Bart <bzolnier@gmail.com> or Boris"
- " <petkovbb@gmail.com> in case you still need it.\n");
-
return 0;
out_free_tape:
--
1.5.3.3
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-22 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-01 8:58 [PATCH 00/24] ide-tape: remove pipelined mode operation Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 01/24] ide-tape: remove idetape_pipeline_active() Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 18:21 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 02/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_add_chrdev_write_request Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 18:33 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-02 21:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 23:16 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-03 6:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-03 22:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 03/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_add_chrdev_read_request Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 18:36 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-02 21:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 04/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_chrdev_write Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 18:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-02 21:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 23:17 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 05/24] ide-tape: cleanup pipeline-specific code from idetape_init_read Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 18:48 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 06/24] ide-tape: remove unused stage-parameter from idetape_copy_stage_to_user Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 19:15 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 07/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code bits from idetape_chrdev_read Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 08/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_space_over_filemarks Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 09/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_mtioctop Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [RFCPATCH 10/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_chrdev_ioctl Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 11/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_blkdev_ioctl Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 12/24] ide-tape: remove idetape_empty_write_pipeline Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 13/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_chrdev_release Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 14/24] ide-tape: remove __idetape_discard_read_pipeline Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 15/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_end_request Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 16/24] ide-tape: remove idetape_calculate_speeds Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 17/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_chrdev_open Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 18/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_setup Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 19/24] ide-tape: remove pipelined mode parameters Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 20/24] ide-tape: remove pipelined mode tape control flags Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 21/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific members from struct ide_tape_obj Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 22/24] ide-tape: remove misc references to pipelined operation in the comments Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 23/24] ide-tape: remove pipelined mode description from Documentation/ide/ide-tape.txt Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 24/24] ide-tape: remove comments markup " Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 9:55 ` [PATCH 00/24] ide-tape: remove pipelined mode operation Jens Axboe
2008-03-01 15:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 18:36 ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-01 10:20 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-03-01 15:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-22 16:09 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
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