linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, RFC] block: remove the paride drivers

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Date:   Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:04:24 +0100
From:   Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] block: remove the paride drivers

On Thursday 15 March 2018, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The paride drivers are some of the cruftiest, grottiest block drivers
> (besides drivers/ide and floppy.c) and have seen one single targeted
> commit since the dawn of git in 2007.  Drop them to make block layer
> improvements easier.

This will make my parallel port ZIP and LS-120 drives useless :(

-- 
Ondrej Zary