[PATCH] ide: officially deprecated the legacy IDE driver

[PATCH] ide: officially deprecated the legacy IDE driver

[Christoph Hellwig]

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.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 drivers/ide/ide-probe.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
index 5aeaca24a28f..4ad824984581 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
@@ -1437,6 +1437,9 @@ int ide_host_register(struct ide_host *host, const struct ide_port_info *d,
 	ide_hwif_t *hwif, *mate = NULL;
 	int i, j = 0;
 
+	pr_warn("legacy IDE will be removed in 2021, please switch to libata\n"
+		"Report any missing HW support to linux-ide@vger.kernel.org\n");
+
 	ide_host_for_each_port(i, hwif, host) {
 		if (hwif == NULL) {
 			mate = NULL;
-- 
2.20.1

Re: [PATCH] ide: officially deprecated the legacy IDE driver

[Jens Axboe]

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 <axboe@kernel.dk>

-- 
Jens Axboe

Re: [PATCH] ide: officially deprecated the legacy IDE driver

[David Miller]

From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 12:08:49 -0600

> 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 <axboe@kernel.dk>

Yeah I totally support this too, I'll apply.