Hi, This patch series is a major rework of the ide-cd driver. The motivations behind it are twofold: * ide-cd is still in use but because it has been out of luck for maintainers lately the code become quite hard to debug and maintain - this puts it back into the shape * aid efforts of developers (Tejun and Alan) who are working on libata ATAPI support - it should be now a lot easier to spot the various quirks for weird/buggy devices, differences between sr/ide-cd etc. This patch series contains only safe/straightforward changes (some "risky" ones are scheduled for later time) and should be fully bisectable. Changes: * unify _four_ slightly different IRQ handlers into one * re-organize handling of quirky-devices (group quirks scattered all over the driver in the table and handle them using flags) * move code for verbose error logging to ide-cd_verbose.c (this code doesn't have any IDE subsystem dependencies so if desired it can be easily converted into generic IDE/libata library) * move code handling cdrom.c IOCTLs to ide-cd_ioctl.c * remove duplicated/dead code (> 700 LOC gone) * move historical changelog to Documentation/ide/ * fix few bugs discovered during rewrite diffstat: Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-cd.1994-2004 | 268 ++ drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c | 6 drivers/ide/Kconfig | 9 drivers/ide/Makefile | 6 drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 3236 +++++++++------------------ drivers/ide/ide-cd.h | 737 ------ drivers/ide/ide-cd_ioctl.c | 265 ++ drivers/ide/ide-cd_verbose.c | 359 ++ include/linux/cdrom.h | 14 9 files changed, 2095 insertions(+), 2805 deletions(-) PS ide-cd Maintainer position is still open... Thanks, Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
