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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1)
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 09:11:14 -0800
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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.