On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 8:12 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/22/2017 03:35 AM, Finn Thain wrote: >> The stuff in drivers/ide/ still has official maintainers, so we should >> probably try to find the regression, if that's what it is. > > I have my doubts given the fact that the drivers are currently effectively > broken and apparently no one before me noticed that. > > However, it should be easy to find the maintainers using > > scripts/get_maintainers.pl > >> Unfortunately, I don't have access to suitable hardware right now, so I >> can't be of much help besides building kernel binaries for bisection. > > You don't need access to hardware. You can test the kernel just fine > on Aranym. All you need is a simple root filesystem and an initrd > which I can provide. In fact, you can just use the kernel and initrd > from the debian-installer distribution:
Correct. And the Falcon IDE driver still works fine when not a module... >> https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-installer-images_20170828_m68k.tar.gz > > Use the common kernel and the initrd for the CD-ROM installation. > >>> For Falcon IDE, you can try the new driver under drivers/ata/, just >>> enable CONFIG_ATA and CONFIG_PATA_FALCON. >>> >> >> Last I heard, the IDE driver/libata conversion plan had been NAK'd. Has >> the IDE subsystem maintainer changed his mind? > > Why it should it be NAK'd? The IDE/ATA subsystem maintainers want to > get all the drivers ported over to libata so they can eventually > get rid of the old IDE stack. Getting rid of the old IDE stack was NAKed (rightfully), due to drivers/ata/ not providing the same level of hardware support as drivers/ide/. Porting drivers over to drivers/ata/ is OK (and wanted), of course. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
