Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1)

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

Hi Dave,

What is your opinion on this patchset?

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

On Thursday, February 04, 2016 02:43:57 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> IDE subsystem has been deprecated since 2009 and the majority
> (if not all) of Linux distributions have switched to use
> libata for ATA support exclusively.
> 
> This patchset removes IDE host drivers that:
> - have been replaced by their corresponding libata PATA host
>   drivers (which have been available since 2006/2007)
> - are not used by any defconfig
> 
> Having duplicated drivers for the same hardware doesn't seem
> to be good thing in the long-term perspective for Linux as
> - testing efforts are divided between two drivers/subsystems
>   (while there is less and less PATA systems left in use)
> - having two drivers for the same hardware confuses users
> 
> Please note that all the hardware supported by IDE host drivers
> nominated for removal remains supported by correspoding libata
> PATA host drivers.
> 
> PS If this patchset is accepted I would like to continue
> removal of IDE host drivers in part 2 which will happen after
> remaining defconfigs which still are using IDE host drivers
> get converted to use corresponding libata PATA host drivers.
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> Samsung R&D Institute Poland
> Samsung Electronics
> 
> 
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (19):
>   ide: remove deprecated atiixp host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated cs5520 host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated cs5530 host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated cs5535 host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated cs5536 host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated sc1200 host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated delkin_cb host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated it8213 host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated it821x host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated jmicron host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated opti621 host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated pdc202xx_old host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated rz1000 host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated serverworks host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated sis5513 host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated slc90e66 host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated triflex host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated ide-pnp host driver
>   ide: remove deprecated icside host driver
> 
>  drivers/ide/Kconfig        | 200 +------------
>  drivers/ide/Makefile       |  19 --
>  drivers/ide/atiixp.c       | 211 -------------
>  drivers/ide/cs5520.c       | 168 -----------
>  drivers/ide/cs5530.c       | 295 -------------------
>  drivers/ide/cs5535.c       | 219 --------------
>  drivers/ide/cs5536.c       | 306 -------------------
>  drivers/ide/delkin_cb.c    | 181 ------------
>  drivers/ide/icside.c       | 691 -------------------------------------------
>  drivers/ide/ide-pnp.c      | 100 -------
>  drivers/ide/it8213.c       | 216 --------------
>  drivers/ide/it821x.c       | 715 ---------------------------------------------
>  drivers/ide/jmicron.c      | 176 -----------
>  drivers/ide/opti621.c      | 178 -----------
>  drivers/ide/pdc202xx_old.c | 361 -----------------------
>  drivers/ide/rz1000.c       |  99 -------
>  drivers/ide/sc1200.c       | 355 ----------------------
>  drivers/ide/serverworks.c  | 449 ----------------------------
>  drivers/ide/sis5513.c      | 636 ----------------------------------------
>  drivers/ide/slc90e66.c     | 181 ------------
>  drivers/ide/triflex.c      | 155 ----------
>  21 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5909 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/atiixp.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/cs5520.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/cs5530.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/cs5535.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/cs5536.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/delkin_cb.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/icside.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/ide-pnp.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/it8213.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/it821x.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/jmicron.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/opti621.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/pdc202xx_old.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/rz1000.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/sc1200.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/serverworks.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/sis5513.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/slc90e66.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/triflex.c