From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:58:45 +0000 >> > The old drivers contain a fair amount of crap, magic and gueswork so a >> > good deal of human analysis and testing is needed to move any change >> > around and prove it's real and valid not guesswork and fudging. >> >> And then once that hard work is done, we kind of just toss it >> for one side of the equation? > > I don't where you got that idea from. > > The "merge" makes it harder to maintain both, adds lots of ifdefs and > artificial divisions of code stuffed into include files. Its ugly as sin > and makes *both* sets of drivers harder to maintain. I have not advocated the ifdef implementation. I have advocated one where the data structures are actually the same, and there are no ifdefs. Please reread my initial reply. -- 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
