linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1)

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Message-ID: <20161208171114.GA29203@infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 8 Dec 2016 09:11:14 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     b.zolnierkie@...sung.com, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tj@...nel.org,
        gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1)

On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 11:39:57AM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> They are not a maintainence burdon, I rarely get more than 1 patch
> each merge window and most of the time those are cleanups or for the
> handling of a kernel wide API change rather than bug fixes.

They are a major maintainence burden for the block layer due to horrible
abuse of all kinds of block layer APIs.