Re: paride initialization cleanup
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2021-08-16 16:42:22
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 09:33:10AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
On 8/16/21 9:11 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:quoted
the paride drivers currently have a major Linux 1.x-style mess for initializing the gendisks. This series refactors them to be modular and self-contained in preparation of error handling for add_disk.Hi Christoph, My understanding is that both the parallel port and IDE are obsolete technologies. Is anyone still using the paride drivers?
It is fairly obsolete indeed. But three years ago Ondrej still had some and did test the blk-mq conversion.