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

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 11:39:57AM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> They are not a maintainence burdon, I rarely get more than 1 patch
> each merge window and most of the time those are cleanups or for the
> handling of a kernel wide API change rather than bug fixes.

They are a major maintainence burden for the block layer due to horrible
abuse of all kinds of block layer APIs.