Re: IDE?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Fri, 2002-08-16 18:35:29 -0700, Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>
wrote in message <[e-mail]=
m>:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:

>     - in particular, it would only bother with PCI (or better)=20
>       controllers, and with UDMA-only setups.
[...]
> And then in five years, in Linux-3.2, we might finally just drop support=
=20
> for the old IDE code with PIO etc. Inevitably some people will still use=
=20

That's bad. Then, you're nailed to use old kernels without having
possibilities of recent kernels only because you're working with eg. old
Alphas, PCMCIA-IDE things or so? Bad, bad, badhorribly bad. Even it's
sloooow, there'll always some need for PIO-only controller support...

MfG, JBG

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