From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: remove the legacy ide driver v2
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 08:52:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b003372-41d0-507a-b74b-b73aa33189f4@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210616134658.1471835-1-hch@lst.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-16 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-16 13:46 remove the legacy ide driver v2 Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-16 13:46 ` [PATCH 1/6] pata_cypress: add a module option to disable BM-DMA Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-16 14:16 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-06-16 13:46 ` [PATCH 2/6] alpha: use libata instead of the legacy ide driver Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-16 13:46 ` [PATCH 3/6] ARM: disable CONFIG_IDE in footbridge_defconfig Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-16 13:46 ` [PATCH 4/6] ARM: disable CONFIG_IDE in pxa_defconfig Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-16 13:46 ` [PATCH 5/6] m68k: use libata instead of the legacy ide driver Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-16 14:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-06-16 14:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-16 13:51 ` remove the legacy ide driver v2 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-06-16 13:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-16 14:52 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2021-06-18 14:38 ` Jens Axboe
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