Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

[Maxim Sobolev]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> On  9 Dec, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>
> > Excuse me for possible off-topic, but I have what is seems for me fresh idea
> > about this question. Why do not remove from wd driver support for chipsets
> > already implemented/tested in ata driver? Thus both clans would satisfied
> > i.e. users with unsupported by ata chips still will have a chance, while all
> > other will be encouraged to use and test better (IMHO) ata... Eventually at
>
> There also exist cases where the chipset is supported but a particular
> functionality isnīt supported yet (in my case itīs the possibility to
> access MS-DOS formated ZIP-disks, harddisk access works well, and Iīm
> not the only one with this problem (not counting the people which have
> not tried to use the ata driver but need to access MS-DOS-ZIPs too)).

Does Soren know about that?

> And I think itīs better to spend someones time with other issues than
> with digging into the wd driver.

IMHO not much digging - several #ifdef 0 here and there will do the trick.

-Maxim




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