On 8/22/05, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Your hotplug support was bad from design/maintainability/workability POVs so got NAK-ed for a good reasons. Delkin driver can be integrated soon. "working nice" != "acceptable for kernel.org" Because of "working nice" attitude IDE driver became such a mess. > > > 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. I'll keep trying you can keep whining. Bartlomiej - 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/