On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 05:54:55AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 05:56:57AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Switch the alpha defconfig from the legacy ide driver to libata. > > Umm... I don't have an IDE alpha box in a usable shape (fans on > CPU module shat themselves), and it would take a while to resurrect > it, but I remember the joy it used to cause in some versions. > > Do you have reports of libata variants of drivers actually tested on > those? No, I haven't. The whole point is that we're not going to keep 40000 lines of code around despite notice for users that don't exist or care. If there is a regression we'll fix it, but we're not going to make life miserable just because we can.