Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1)

From	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1)
Date	2016-12-08 18:20 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 11:39:57AM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> They are not a maintainence burdon, I rarely get more than 1 patch
> each merge window and most of the time those are cleanups or for the
> handling of a kernel wide API change rather than bug fixes.

They are a major maintainence burden for the block layer due to horrible
abuse of all kinds of block layer APIs.

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Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1) Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> - 2016-12-08 14:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-12-08 16:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1) Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> - 2016-12-08 17:20 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-12-08 17:50 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1) Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> - 2016-12-08 18:20 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-12-08 19:00 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1) Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-12-08 18:20 +0100

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