From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: officially deprecated the legacy IDE driver Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 12:08:49 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20190508180140.12364-1-hch@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190508180140.12364-1-hch@lst.de> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig , davem@davemloft.net Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 5/8/19 12:01 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > After a recent chat with Dave we agreed to try to finally kill off the > legacy IDE code base. Set a two year grace period in which we try > to move everyone over. There are a few pieces of hardware not > supported by libata yet, but for many of them we aren't even sure > if there are any users. For those that have users we have usually > found a volunteer to add libata support. I fully support this. Acked-by: Jens Axboe -- Jens Axboe