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

[Jens Axboe]

On 12/23/21 10:29 AM, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> On Thursday 23 December 2021 12:35:03 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.
>>
>> Ondrej: you're the last known users, so please speak up if you still
>> have a use case!
> 
> Looks like I really need to do the libata conversion.

That would indeed be great! As mentioned in my reply, I don't want to
remove drivers that are actively being used. Is the libata conversion
something you are going to do, or is it more of a dream at this point?
Ideally we get that done first, and then remove paride.

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Jens Axboe