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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 04:44:46 +0100 (CET)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] ide: remove the legacy ide driver
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The legay ide driver has been replace with libata startin in 2003 and has
s/legay/legacy/;s/replace/replaced/;s/startin/startin/ (though I'd say
"back in" instead in the latter case).
> 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).
Maciej
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