From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4BC2C43381 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:22:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C52DF64F1D for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:22:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229811AbhCRRVr convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:21:47 -0400 Received: from unicorn.mansr.com ([81.2.72.234]:42522 "EHLO unicorn.mansr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229524AbhCRRVm (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:21:42 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 753 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:21:41 EDT Received: from raven.mansr.com (raven.mansr.com [81.2.72.235]) by unicorn.mansr.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 194A215360; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:09:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by raven.mansr.com (Postfix, from userid 51770) id 952E4219C32; Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:09:02 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Al Viro , Jens Axboe , Thomas Bogendoerfer , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Russell King , "David S. Miller" , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, Ivan Kokshaysky , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , Matt Turner , linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Henderson Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] alpha: use libata instead of the legacy ide driver References: <20210318045706.200458-1-hch@lst.de> <20210318045706.200458-2-hch@lst.de> <20210318060724.GA29117@lst.de> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:09:02 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20210318060724.GA29117@lst.de> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Thu, 18 Mar 2021 07:07:24 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 05:54:55AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 05:56:57AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> > Switch the alpha defconfig from the legacy ide driver to libata. >> >> Umm... I don't have an IDE alpha box in a usable shape (fans on >> CPU module shat themselves), and it would take a while to resurrect >> it, but I remember the joy it used to cause in some versions. >> >> Do you have reports of libata variants of drivers actually tested on >> those? > > No, I haven't. The whole point is that we're not going to keep 40000 > lines of code around despite notice for users that don't exist or > care. If there is a regression we'll fix it, but we're not going to > make life miserable just because we can. The pata_ali driver works fine on my UP1500 machine, unless something broke recently. I'll build the latest kernel and report back. -- Måns Rullgård