On Tue, 2017-01-31 at 10:02 -0800, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 01/31/2017 07:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > [1] which were a pain in the ass to untangle and debug during > > development, it's really time for it to die.. > > Outside of the patch series in question, how to we expedite the > euthanasia of IDE? What explicit features/support are we missing > through libata that would need to be added, before we can git rm > drivers/ide/?
I thought the primary objection was actually embedded in that libata with its reliance on SCSI was just too large a dependency, so they have to keep using drivers/ide. Perhaps nvme and flash is obviating this problem and we can ask them again, though? James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
