From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756070AbcGHRJ0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2016 13:09:26 -0400 Received: from mailout2.samsung.com ([203.254.224.25]:40607 "EHLO mailout2.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932961AbcGHRIp (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2016 13:08:45 -0400 X-AuditID: cbfee61a-f79106d000000835-63-577fde147e27 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: "David S. Miller" Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Alan Cox , Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] ide: remove deprecated host drivers (part 1) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 19:07:46 +0200 Message-id: <3317462.LGzQYRpeb4@amdc1976> User-Agent: KMail/4.13.3 (Linux/3.13.0-79-generic; KDE/4.13.3; x86_64; ; ) In-reply-to: <1454593456-3162-1-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> References: <1454593456-3162-1-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7Bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFrrJLMWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsVy+t9jQV2Re/XhBrf7NS3mnG9hsZg05S+b xbEdj5gsLu+aw2ZxZtUtdotfy48yOrB5PJj6n8ljy8qbTB6bVnWyebSe3MTq8XmTXABrFJdN SmpOZllqkb5dAldG445ZLAWzlCuam9awNDBOk+li5OCQEDCRePJLoouRE8gUk7hwbz1bFyMX h5DALEaJpmcbGCGcr4wSS++8ZwapYhOwkpjYvooRxBYR0JZYd6CHFaSIWWA7o8TeYxvZQRLC At4S/89eYQLZwCKgKtG33wokzCugKdGz5h/YHFEBL4me7Y/A5nAKeEhsutvABGILCbhLNB2+ xAxRLyjxY/I9FhCbWUBeYt/+qawQtpbE+p3HmSYwAp2JUDYLSdksJGULGJlXMUqkFiQXFCel 5xrmpZbrFSfmFpfmpesl5+duYgQH+DOpHYwHd7kfYhTgYFTi4d1xsz5ciDWxrLgy9xCjBAez kgivNUiINyWxsiq1KD++qDQntfgQozQHi5I47+P/68KEBNITS1KzU1MLUotgskwcnFINjNyG FeGsnSc3l0ib2712OMeteLI4693JHy8NvASOLr3MFfbx45yba2JdhNPCGs/cCXzIJao5dWJF 89mfHw+xv1aYe+hluOmPmacLLd53qf6OrXqxy1roq+N5fZFsg9pw5bz1YuacF7xuXJwtpubD tTw1r1zzFHuOitru2uXMizz/an68ZzIjTomlOCPRUIu5qDgRABNml4dsAgAA Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Dave, What is your opinion on this patchset? 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 - have been replaced by their corresponding libata PATA host 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