Re: [PATCH 00/24] ide-tape: remove pipelined mode operation

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Saturday 01 March 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 12:20:38PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 09:58:24AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > Hi Bart,
> > > 
> > > here's the 1st draft of the pipeline removal series. As the diffstat below openly
> > > states it, a lot of code got removed - even more than the cleanup series we did
> > > earlier.
> > >...
> > 
> > After seeing commit d48567dd43868b3d2e1fcc33ee76dc2d38a1ddeb that 
> > schedules ide-tape for removal I'm wondering whether any cleanups of 
> > this driver make any sense at all:
> 
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> you're right and I'm expecting Bart's input on that. However, removing
> tape support in ide altogether is probably not the right thing to do and
> Bart wanted to keep some kind of a basic, ide-tape "light" version in so,
> yes, the above commit is misleading.
> 
> Here's a fix, Bart please apply.
> 
> --
> From 11c41d7760dd0b8f4cd1ab3076c86a2c4beec4de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 16:31:17 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] ide-tape: keep a light version in ide tree
> 
> Keep a light version of the driver in for the
> small amount of ide tape hardware still using it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |   10 ----------
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Since there was also an warning in the driver I reverted the original
commit instead.