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

Re: [PATCH 10/10] ide: remove the legacy ide driver

2021-03-19 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Sat, 20 Mar 2021, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > 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

Re: [PATCH 10/10] ide: remove the legacy ide driver

2021-03-19 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
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

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

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

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

remove the legacy ide driver

2021-03-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
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 are a few exceptions. This series first switches over all