Re: [PATCH] ide: officially deprecated the legacy IDE driver

[David Miller]

From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 12:08:49 -0600

> On 5/8/19 12:01 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> After a recent chat with Dave we agreed to try to finally kill off the
>> legacy IDE code base.  Set a two year grace period in which we try
>> to move everyone over.  There are a few pieces of hardware not
>> supported by libata yet, but for many of them we aren't even sure
>> if there are any users.  For those that have users we have usually
>> found a volunteer to add libata support.
> 
> I fully support this.
> 
> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>

Yeah I totally support this too, I'll apply.