On 8/16/21 10:42 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Was thinking the same, but if someone is actually using it... Ondrej, are you still using it? And if so, any chance you can test these patches? -- Jens Axboe