linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ide: officially deprecated the legacy IDE driver

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Date:   Wed, 8 May 2019 12:08:49 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: officially deprecated the legacy IDE driver

On 5/8/19 12:01 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> After a recent chat with Dave we agreed to try to finally kill off the
> legacy IDE code base.  Set a two year grace period in which we try
> to move everyone over.  There are a few pieces of hardware not
> supported by libata yet, but for many of them we aren't even sure
> if there are any users.  For those that have users we have usually
> found a volunteer to add libata support.

I fully support this.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>

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Jens Axboe