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Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request

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Hi,

On Tuesday, January 31, 2017 10:02:50 AM Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 01/31/2017 07:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > [1] which were a pain in the ass to untangle and debug during development,
> > it's really time for it to die..
> 
> Outside of the patch series in question, how to we expedite the
> euthanasia of IDE? What explicit features/support are we missing through

When it comes to missing features/support there is still
number of non-x86 host drivers not ported to libata (I'm
slowly working on this as a side-task, any help would be
much appreciated).

> libata that would need to be added, before we can git rm drivers/ide/ ?

I was trying to start the removal with [1] last year but
it has been NAK-ed by DaveM who seems to want to keep
drivers/ide/ forever [2].

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/4/409
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/8/423

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

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remove the cmd_type field from struct request Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-01-31 17:20 +0100
  [PATCH 01/10] scm_blk: remove unneeded REQ_TYPE_FS check Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-01-31 17:30 +0100
  [PATCH 05/10] mspro_block: remove pointless prep_fn Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-01-31 17:30 +0100
  [PATCH 07/10] nbd: move request validity checking into nbd_send_cmd Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-01-31 17:30 +0100
  [PATCH 06/10] nbd: remove REQ_TYPE_DRV_PRIV leftovers Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-01-31 17:30 +0100
  [PATCH 04/10] ms_block: remove pointless prep_fn Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-01-31 17:30 +0100
  Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2017-01-31 19:10 +0100
    Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> - 2017-01-31 20:00 +0100
      Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2017-01-31 22:20 +0100
    Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-01-31 20:00 +0100
    Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> - 2017-02-01 08:00 +0100
      Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> - 2017-02-01 12:00 +0100
    Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> - 2017-02-01 11:40 +0100
  Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2017-01-31 22:10 +0100
  Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2017-02-01 04:00 +0100

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