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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:13:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de> To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com> cc: linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver (was: MMIO IDE driver) On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > Ok, thanks for the explanation Alan. So, there's no technical argument, > > just "being nice to the users", and add a new driver, which we know we'll > > have to remove soon, thus having to persuade its users, who by that time > > Define "soon". :-) "Soon" in this case means, we NOW have a replacement driver and we aim at deprecating the IDE driver in its favour. > > will get used to it and will not want to invest money into switching to > > another one... > > Invest into what if the drivers are functionally identical? For example, into porting user space (replace hdx with sdx). And even switching to a "functionally identical" driver requires a new complete testing cycle... No, I won't be in that situation, so, it's not my money I'm worrying about. But I know there are companies for whom releasing a new version of /etc/fstab is a considerable expense... Not that I cared about them anyway. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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