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

[Ondrej Zary]

On Thursday 23 December 2021 19:33:21 Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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.

Haven't started yet. But I'm increasing its priority in my todo list.

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Ondrej Zary