Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1)

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>]

Hi,

On Friday, July 08, 2016 07:07:46 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> What is your opinion on this patchset?

Ping.. since there was no negative (or any other) feedback I think that
this can be put into -next for some wider exposure..

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

> Best regards,
> --
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> Samsung R&D Institute Poland
> Samsung Electronics
> 
> On Thursday, February 04, 2016 02:43:57 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > This patchset removes IDE host drivers that:
> > - have been replaced by their corresponding libata PATA host
> >   drivers (which have been available since 2006/2007)
> > - are not used by any defconfig
> > 
> > Having duplicated drivers for the same hardware doesn't seem
> > to be good thing in the long-term perspective for Linux as
> > - testing efforts are divided between two drivers/subsystems
> >   (while there is less and less PATA systems left in use)
> > - having two drivers for the same hardware confuses users
> > 
> > Please note that all the hardware supported by IDE host drivers
> > nominated for removal remains supported by correspoding libata
> > PATA host drivers.
> > 
> > PS If this patchset is accepted I would like to continue
> > removal of IDE host drivers in part 2 which will happen after
> > remaining defconfigs which still are using IDE host drivers
> > get converted to use corresponding libata PATA host drivers.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > --
> > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> > Samsung R&D Institute Poland
> > Samsung Electronics
> > 
> > 
> > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (19):
> >   ide: remove deprecated atiixp host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated cs5520 host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated cs5530 host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated cs5535 host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated cs5536 host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated sc1200 host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated delkin_cb host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated it8213 host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated it821x host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated jmicron host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated opti621 host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated pdc202xx_old host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated rz1000 host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated serverworks host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated sis5513 host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated slc90e66 host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated triflex host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated ide-pnp host driver
> >   ide: remove deprecated icside host driver
> > 
> >  drivers/ide/Kconfig        | 200 +------------
> >  drivers/ide/Makefile       |  19 --
> >  drivers/ide/atiixp.c       | 211 -------------
> >  drivers/ide/cs5520.c       | 168 -----------
> >  drivers/ide/cs5530.c       | 295 -------------------
> >  drivers/ide/cs5535.c       | 219 --------------
> >  drivers/ide/cs5536.c       | 306 -------------------
> >  drivers/ide/delkin_cb.c    | 181 ------------
> >  drivers/ide/icside.c       | 691 -------------------------------------------
> >  drivers/ide/ide-pnp.c      | 100 -------
> >  drivers/ide/it8213.c       | 216 --------------
> >  drivers/ide/it821x.c       | 715 ---------------------------------------------
> >  drivers/ide/jmicron.c      | 176 -----------
> >  drivers/ide/opti621.c      | 178 -----------
> >  drivers/ide/pdc202xx_old.c | 361 -----------------------
> >  drivers/ide/rz1000.c       |  99 -------
> >  drivers/ide/sc1200.c       | 355 ----------------------
> >  drivers/ide/serverworks.c  | 449 ----------------------------
> >  drivers/ide/sis5513.c      | 636 ----------------------------------------
> >  drivers/ide/slc90e66.c     | 181 ------------
> >  drivers/ide/triflex.c      | 155 ----------
> >  21 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5909 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/atiixp.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/cs5520.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/cs5530.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/cs5535.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/cs5536.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/delkin_cb.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/icside.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/ide-pnp.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/it8213.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/it821x.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/jmicron.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/opti621.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/pdc202xx_old.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/rz1000.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/sc1200.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/serverworks.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/sis5513.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/slc90e66.c
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/ide/triflex.c