On Monday 19 May 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2008 00:53:57 +0300 > Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This was the oldest and most limited of the three IDE drivers we ship. > > NAK - it isn't just an IDE driver it's an MFM/RLL driver as well. It's > one of the few things suitable for rescuing ancient drives so should be > retained. I tend to disagree: - there is nothing wrong with using an older kernel for rescue operations on MFM/RLL drives - it should be relatively easy to add MFM/RLL support to IDE subsystem or libata layer (or even both) If there is no consensus about hd.c removal I think that the appropriate alternative would be to move it to drivers/block/ as it has nothing to do with IDE subsystem code. 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
