Re: [PATCH, RFC] block: remove the paride drivers

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Mar 15 2018 - 04:05:06 EST


On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 09:04:24AM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> On Thursday 15 March 2018, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > The paride drivers are some of the cruftiest, grottiest block drivers
> > (besides drivers/ide and floppy.c) and have seen one single targeted
> > commit since the dawn of git in 2007. Drop them to make block layer
> > improvements easier.
>
> This will make my parallel port ZIP and LS-120 drives useless :(

So you are still using them and the code actually works properly?