Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request

[Sergei Shtylyov]

On 2/1/2017 9:53 AM, Hannes Reinecke 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
> > libata that would need to be added, before we can git rm drivers/ide/ ?
> There is only a single driver (sgi_ide) which hasn't been moved over to
> libata.

   Huh? What about Toshiba TC86C001 and TX4938/9, TI DaVinci? That's off the 
top of my head only...

> But this is for an old Itanium-based server only, and even SGI didn't
> press us to have this ported.
> (And we have disabled the IDE drivers since SLES11, where we still support
> Itanium.)

   Or do you mean only the drivers SuSe is interested in?

[...]
> Cheers,
>
> Hannes

MBR, Sergei