IRQ problem with PCMCIA

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On 8/22/05, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Llu, 2005-08-22 at 11:25 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > CardBus IDE devices work just fine but there are still issues with
> > hotplug support (work in progress).
> 
> "work in progress". Yes because I submitted working IDE cardbus hotplug
> support, and Mark Lord submitted a Delkin driver both of which worked
> months ago rather nicely and neither of which hit the Bartlomiej stone
> wall and never got in and are now stale patches.

Your hotplug support was bad from design/maintainability/workability
POVs so got NAK-ed for a good reasons.  Delkin driver can be integrated
soon.

"working nice" != "acceptable for kernel.org"

Because of "working nice" attitude IDE driver became such a mess.

> > > up ever getting those into the kernel. Please wait instead for the new
> > > SATA/ATA layer to develop hotplug support.
> >
> > This is just a FUD to discourage people from working on IDE drivers.
> > Alan is doing this on purpose and doesn't really want to improve things.
> 
> Its a realistic assessment based upon over ten years working on the
> Linux kernel. I do not believe you are capable of fixing the old IDE
> code. But don't take that personally I am sceptical than anyone can fix
> the old IDE code.

I'll keep trying you can keep whining.

Bartlomiej