[PATCH 00/63] ide-cd: redux

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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
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