Is this the first sounding for a ./drivers/legacy/**
A place to store retired coded that would need to be maintained, but on a
limited bases?
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > >Isn't this about the time that we can say: This is depreciated so much
> > >that it will no longer work?
> >
> > No. Compare the code sizes of hd.c and the ide suite. It's still important
> > for old, small machines.
>
> Yes, I cut all the IDE features back out of hd.c with small size as a goal.
> I think you would seriously have to consider giving drivers/block/xd.c
> the axe first. It probably makes sense to drop both xd.c & hd.c in 2.5.x
> along with a bunch of other stone-age stuff (like 1x & 2x non-IDE CD-ROMs ?)
>
> > I don't know if the ide driver will even work at all
> > on machines with ST506 drives.
>
> As of 2.3.47 ide didn't work on old MFM/st506 stuff. (2.3.48 and up just
> cold reboot right after "Uncompressing kernel..." message on my sx16)
I wish you had spoken up earlier.....
I just booted "hd.c" and it is a brick! FSCKing a 13GB with "hd.c" DON'T!
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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