linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/68] ide2libata

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Date:	Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:24:10 +0100
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/68] ide2libata

On Saturday 30 January 2010 12:25:40 am Alan Cox wrote:

> So I think its an extremely useful exercise to figure out what subtle
> differences there are between the drivers. It's not then a trivial
> assumption that they can just be pasted over. The include stuff though is

Fully agreed, that is why a fair deal of review work went into making
sure that porting of a each driver to ide2libata doesn't cause functionality
changes.

> too ugly to merge even if its an excellent research project to identify
> the differences and quirks.

Well, looks acceptable to me when the alternative is a duplicated code
(though I don't insists on getting it merged anyway)..

--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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