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

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Date:	Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:14:32 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, bzolnier@...il.com, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/68] ide2libata

From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:58:45 +0000

>> > The old drivers contain a fair amount of crap, magic and gueswork so a
>> > good deal of human analysis and testing is needed to move any change
>> > around and prove it's real and valid not guesswork and fudging.
>> 
>> And then once that hard work is done, we kind of just toss it
>> for one side of the equation?
> 
> I don't where you got that idea from.
> 
> The "merge" makes it harder to maintain both, adds lots of ifdefs and
> artificial divisions of code stuffed into include files. Its ugly as sin
> and makes *both* sets of drivers harder to maintain.

I have not advocated the ifdef implementation.

I have advocated one where the data structures are actually
the same, and there are no ifdefs.

Please reread my initial reply.
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