> I tend to disagree: > > - there is nothing wrong with using an older kernel for rescue operations > on MFM/RLL drives Older kernels don't boot on a lot of modern hardware. > - it should be relatively easy to add MFM/RLL support to IDE subsystem > or libata layer (or even both) I'm working on a libata driver when I get bits of time but it is not trivial because stuff like device probe is totally different, multi-write/multi-read are different, some of the command set is different and even some of the task file registers are different. > 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. Thats true enough. Alan -- 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
