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
