Re: remove the legacy ide driver v2

[Jens Axboe]

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