On Thursday 15 March 2018 09:04:55 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 09:04:24AM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: > > On Thursday 15 March 2018, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > The paride drivers are some of the cruftiest, grottiest block drivers > > > (besides drivers/ide and floppy.c) and have seen one single targeted > > > commit since the dawn of git in 2007. Drop them to make block layer > > > improvements easier. > > > > This will make my parallel port ZIP and LS-120 drives useless :( > > So you are still using them and the code actually works properly? I don't use them daily, only occasionally. Last time they worked. Checked now and it seems to work: [ 0.000000] Linux version 4.16.0-rc4+ (zary@gsql) (gcc version 6.3.0 20170516 (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1)) #217 SMP Tue Mar 13 00:08:16 CET 2018 ... # modprobe epat [ 47.376762] paride: epat registered as protocol 0 # modprobe pf drive0=0x378,0 [ 59.048408] pf: pf version 1.04, major 47, cluster 64, nice 0 [ 59.156038] pf0: Sharing parport0 at 0x378 [ 59.157017] pf0: epat 1.02, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x378, [ 59.157020] mode 5 (EPP-32), delay 1 [ 59.187400] pf0: mode sense completion: alt=0x51 stat=0x51 err=0x64 loop=0 phase=3 [ 59.188080] pf0: mode sense data done: alt=0x51 stat=0x51 err=0x64 loop=0 phase=3 [ 59.190648] pf0: Sense key: 6, ASC: 29, ASQ: 0 [ 59.196326] pf0: get capacity completion: alt=0x51 stat=0x51 err=0x24 loop=0 phase=3 [ 59.197038] pf0: get capacity data done: alt=0x51 stat=0x51 err=0x24 loop=0 phase=3 [ 59.199499] pf0: Sense key: 2, ASC: 3a, ASQ: 0 [ 59.200108] pf0: MATSHITA LS-120 COSM 04, master LUN 0, type 0 [ 59.200109] , removable [ 59.200745] , no media [ 59.219353] pf0: get capacity completion: alt=0x51 stat=0x51 err=0x24 loop=0 phase=3 [ 59.220078] pf0: get capacity data done: alt=0x51 stat=0x51 err=0x24 loop=0 phase=3 [ 59.222777] pf0: Sense key: 2, ASC: 3a, ASQ: 0 [ 59.223419] pf0: MATSHITA LS-120 COSM 04, master LUN 0, type 0 [ 59.223420] , removable [ 59.224042] , no media # mount /dev/pf0 /media/floppy [ 89.255905] pf0: mode sense completion: alt=0x51 stat=0x51 err=0x64 loop=0 phase=3 [ 89.256657] pf0: mode sense data done: alt=0x51 stat=0x51 err=0x64 loop=0 phase=3 [ 89.259415] pf0: Sense key: 6, ASC: 28, ASQ: 0 [ 89.265571] pf0: MATSHITA LS-120 COSM 04, master LUN 0, type 0 [ 89.265573] , removable [ 89.266228] , RO [ 89.266871] , 246528 blocks [ 96.871316] pf0: MATSHITA LS-120 COSM 04, master LUN 0, type 0 [ 96.871319] , removable [ 96.871998] , RO [ 96.872653] , 246528 blocks [ 96.888131] pf0: MATSHITA LS-120 COSM 04, master LUN 0, type 0 [ 96.888134] , removable [ 96.888808] , RO [ 96.889479] , 246528 blocks mount: /dev/pf0 is write-protected, mounting read-only # ls -la /media/floppy/ total 356 drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 2048 Jun 11 2002 !!!!!!!! drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Sep 16 2015 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 750 Nov 8 2007 auditsc-move-name-to-end-of-record.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 638 Nov 8 2007 audit-send-netlink-sync.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5557 Nov 8 2007 cdu31a_interrupt_handling_new.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4317 Nov 8 2007 cdu31a_interrupt_handling.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51440 Nov 8 2007 cdu31a-locking-dd.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 48769 Nov 8 2007 cdu31a-locking.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19470 Nov 8 2007 cdu31a-make-working.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 899 Nov 8 2007 cdu31a-timeouts-fix.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36067 Nov 8 2007 cdu31a_trivial_cleanups.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19278 Nov 8 2007 cdu31a_use_semaphores.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 462 Nov 8 2007 cyrix-math-new.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 530 Nov 8 2007 cyrix-math.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 391 Nov 8 2007 cyrix-new.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1468 Nov 8 2007 cyrix-test.patch drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Jun 5 2002 DEUTSCH drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Jun 5 2002 ENGLISH drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Jun 5 2002 FRAN?AIS -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 490 Nov 8 2007 hz100.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 796 Nov 8 2007 ide-floppy-eject.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1655 Nov 8 2007 pf-fix-excess-reconnects.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 561 Nov 8 2007 sata_via_pata_dma_fix.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 111104 Sep 26 1997 SETUP.EXE -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 643 Nov 8 2007 uncompressed-kernel-boot.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 455 Nov 8 2007 uncompressed-kernel-make.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1098 Nov 8 2007 uncompressed-kernel.patch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1558 Nov 8 2007 usbtouchscreen-invert.patch -- Ondrej Zary