From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752779AbbJFOXb (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:23:31 -0400 Received: from eddie.linux-mips.org ([148.251.95.138]:53067 "EHLO cvs.linux-mips.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751979AbbJFOXS (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:23:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 16:23:12 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH] mips: bigsur_defconfig: convert to use libata PATA drivers Message-ID: <20151006142312.GA28984@linux-mips.org> References: <1442245918-27631-1-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1442245918-27631-1-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 05:51:42PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > 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 bigsur_defconfig to use libata PATA > drivers (tc86c001 IDE host driver has no corresponding libata > driver yet so it is not converted). > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > --- > Build tested only. > If you have affected hardware please test. Thank you. Nobody replied so I applied all 17 patches. I've only too often updated the config I'm actually using to use libata so thanks to doing this for all configs! Ralf