James Bottomley wrote:
Right at the moment, we have two separate subsystems for running IDE type devices: driver/ide and drivers/ata. The claim I've seen is that drivers/ata can do everything drivers/ide can do plus it does sata. I also note that no major distribution seems to enable anything in drivers/ide anymore, so given this is it time to deprecate drivers/ide? A counter argument to the above is that not all drivers (particularly the older ones where hw is scarce) are converted to drivers/ata, so drivers/ide seems to be needed for some legacy systems (in which case it can be deprecated but not removed). I've also noted that some embedded distributions seem to be using drivers/ide, but I'm not really sure whether this is inertia or some overriding need. The proposal is to discuss the future of these two subsystems and arrive at a consensus what's happening to each going forwards.
I'm not in any rush to change the status quo as I see it: don't remove drivers/ide but encourage new drivers to be under libata.
I am a bit disappointed at all the drivers/ide churn. I had hoped it would sit around and be a stable alternative, a fallback to libata.
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