KernelTrap: IDE Layer Dissension May 2, 2005, 10 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (4250 reads)
"Alan Cox maintained the 2.4 Linux kernel's IDE layer. Then, in August of 2003 he began a one year sabbatical, and in early 2.5 development Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz took over maintainership of the IDE layer. In a recent posting to the lkml Alan complained about broken functionality in 2.6.12-rc3 saying, 'now I come back to look at the ide layer ready for a 2.6.12 merge and its all a bit messy. The open code was clean and is now duplicated. Copies of subtly different per driver gendisk/disk layer open routines have appeared that should be shared. The default driver handling has been removed and half the options for obscure systems have been marked obsolete in some Gnome like purge of functionality that might scare small children...'"
