On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 09:33:10AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 8/16/21 9:11 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> the paride drivers currently have a major Linux 1.x-style mess for >> initializing the gendisks. This series refactors them to be modular >> and self-contained in preparation of error handling for add_disk. > > Hi Christoph, > > My understanding is that both the parallel port and IDE are obsolete > technologies. Is anyone still using the paride drivers? It is fairly obsolete indeed. But three years ago Ondrej still had some and did test the blk-mq conversion.