Re: [PATCH] Re: Old HD driver does not compile in 2.3.99pre9-2

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Sun May 21 2000 - 02:57:21 EST


Well it is fixed again......regardless that ATA-1 and ATA-2 are retired.
As long as it still works and we have to support back to i386SX....
We keep it all.....sorry....
You know for a fact that if we drop support for the weakest and the oldest
hardware someone will scream bloody murder.....my ears are tender from my
first child.....

When Socket3/5/7 are extinct.....lets go for the major kill of code!!

On Sun, 21 May 2000, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> Isn't this about the time that we can say: This is depreciated so much
> that it will no longer work?
>
> We kept it around because it was a VERY important driver, and we
> weren't completely sure that the new version would work for everyone.
> Well, we've tried it for a few years now, and it works. So the old one
> can be dropped.

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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