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From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] ide: remove the legacy ide driver
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On Sat, 20 Mar 2021, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > been scheduled for removal for a while.  Finally kill it off so that we
> > can start cleaning up various bits of cruft it forced on the block layer.
> 
>  You need to adjust Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt too, 
> i.e. remove all the `ide*' options, possibly more (I haven't checked in 
> detail).

 And also Documentation/ide/ide.rst.  Also do we have all the necessary 
`hdparm' features supported in libata nowadays for PATA devices?

  Maciej