On 12/23/21 4:35 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

Hi Jens,

the paride driver has been unmaintained for a while and is a significant
maintainance burden, including the fact that it is one of the last
users of the block layer bounce buffering code.  This patch suggest
to remove it assuming no users complain loduly.

It really should be removed imho. To give folks a chance to pipe up,
might be more reasonable to queue it up post the 5.17 merge window. I
expect a lot of people are going to be less attentive the next few weeks
than usual, and that really isn't a lot of warning to give even with an
-rc8 planned.

-- 
Jens Axboe