Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:38:55 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] ide: locking improvements |
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > The work has already been done and it is a wortwhile work. The risk is > quite low (this is the statement based on rather deep understanding of > IDE subsystem, the complete audit of all code-paths affected and all the > testing experiences from Scalex86/me). > > Moreover the patch won't be merged after few months of extra testing. > > I feel that you still keep on questioning the point of improving IDE > and insist on putting it into "bug-fixes only" mode. If this is really > the case I'm completely uninterested in discussing it any further.
What, exactly, is the point of making more than bug-fix-only changes to the IDE code today, when we have libata around which is a much better code base to work from? I'm afraid it still escapes me. I don't mean to denigrate the work that you and other people working on IDE are doing, but can't help but think there would be more productive outlets for it..
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