On Llu, 2005-08-22 at 11:25 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > CardBus IDE devices work just fine but there are still issues with > hotplug support (work in progress).
"work in progress". Yes because I submitted working IDE cardbus hotplug support, and Mark Lord submitted a Delkin driver both of which worked months ago rather nicely and neither of which hit the Bartlomiej stone wall and never got in and are now stale patches. > > up ever getting those into the kernel. Please wait instead for the new > > SATA/ATA layer to develop hotplug support. > > This is just a FUD to discourage people from working on IDE drivers. > Alan is doing this on purpose and doesn't really want to improve things. Its a realistic assessment based upon over ten years working on the Linux kernel. I do not believe you are capable of fixing the old IDE code. But don't take that personally I am sceptical than anyone can fix the old IDE code. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
