[Linux-parport] [RFC] remove the paride driver

[Jens Axboe]

On 12/23/21 4:35 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> the paride driver has been unmaintained for a while and is a significant
> maintainance burden, including the fact that it is one of the last
> users of the block layer bounce buffering code.  This patch suggest
> to remove it assuming no users complain loduly.

It really should be removed imho. To give folks a chance to pipe up,
might be more reasonable to queue it up post the 5.17 merge window. I
expect a lot of people are going to be less attentive the next few weeks
than usual, and that really isn't a lot of warning to give even with an
-rc8 planned.

-- 
Jens Axboe