On 12/23/21 10:29 AM, Ondrej Zary wrote: > On Thursday 23 December 2021 12:35:03 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. >> >> Ondrej: you're the last known users, so please speak up if you still >> have a use case! > > Looks like I really need to do the libata conversion. That would indeed be great! As mentioned in my reply, I don't want to remove drivers that are actively being used. Is the libata conversion something you are going to do, or is it more of a dream at this point? Ideally we get that done first, and then remove paride. -- Jens Axboe