You can just copy old drives/ide/ + include/linux/[ide.h, hdreg.h]
+ asm/ide.h and it should compile/work?...
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 05:17:03PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > And finally a small plea for more testing. Do you even test before
> > blindly sending patches off to Linus?! Sometimes just watching how
> > quickly these big patches appears makes it impossible that they have
> > gotten any kind of testing other than the 'hey it compiles', which I
> > think it just way too little for something that could possible screw
> > peoples data up very badly. Frankly, _I'm_ too scared to run 2.5 IDE
> > currently. The success ratio of posted over working patches is too big.
>
> Add my voice to these concerns. At the very least the code should have
> been moved into a second tree to allow people to work with the old stable
> driver as needed.
>
> -ben
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