Re: remove the legacy ide driver

2021-03-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Christoph! On 3/18/21 5:56 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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 n

Re: remove the legacy ide driver

2021-03-19 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Hmm, there's still a regression in that pata_legacy unconditionally pokes at random I/O port locations

Re: remove the legacy ide driver

2021-03-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 12:43:48PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > A few months ago I wrote another patch to move some more platforms away > from macide but it has not been tested yet. That is not to say you should > wait. However, my patch does have some changes that are missing from your > patch se

Re: remove the legacy ide driver

2021-03-18 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, 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 ar