From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH] arm: collie_defconfig: convert to use libata PATA drivers Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 15:15:19 +0100 Message-ID: <2391832.J7vu9NK7zC@amdc1976> References: <1439571876-13758-1-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> <1439571876-13758-6-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-reply-to: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov , Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson Cc: linux-arm-kernel , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, kernel list , Russell King List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Friday, August 14, 2015 08:25:45 PM Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: > 2015-08-14 20:04 GMT+03:00 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz : > > IDE subsystem has been deprecated since 2009 and the majority > > (if not all) of Linux distributions have switched to use > > libata for ATA support exclusively. However there are still > > some users (mostly old or/and embedded non-x86 systems) that > > have not converted from using IDE subsystem to libata PATA > > drivers. This doesn't seem to be good thing in the long-term > > for Linux as while there is less and less PATA systems left > > in use: > > > > * testing efforts are divided between two subsystems > > > > * having duplicate drivers for same hardware confuses users > > > > This patch converts collie_defconfig to use libata PATA > > drivers. > > > > Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > > Acked-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov Thank you. Arnd/Olof, could you please merge this patch? Best regards,