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SubjectRe: remove the legacy ide driver v2
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On 6/16/21 7:46 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we've been trying to get rid of the legacy ide driver for a while now,
> and finally scheduled a removal for 2021, which is three month old now.
>
> In general distros and most defconfigs have switched to libata long ago,
> but there are a few exceptions. This series first switches over all
> remaining defconfigs to use libata and then removes the legacy ide
> driver.
>
> libata mostly covers all hardware supported by the legacy ide driver.
> There are three mips drivers that are not supported, but the linux-mips
> list could not identify any users of those. There also are two m68k
> drivers that do not have libata equivalents, which might or might not
> have users, so we'll need some input and possibly help from the m68k
> community here.
>
> This series is against Jens' for-5.14/libata branch.

Unless someone complains loudly, I plan on queueing this up end this
week.

--
Jens Axboe

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