From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:41:32 -0600 > The current Kconfig text for CONFIG_IDE doesn't give a hint to users that this > subsystem is currently in maintenance mode and isn't actively developed. > Let's correct this by marking it as deprecated, and also get rid of a bunch of > unnecessary text that doesn't really have anything to do with what the option is > for. > > Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@xxxxxxxxx> Applied to ide-next-2.6, thanks. But honestly, we have to reword or revert this if certain things don't happen before the next merge window. What it comes to is that two things have to happen before we can completely shut down IDE and schedule it's removal. 1) Add a way for the ATA layer to create compat device nodes so that people can change over to use the ATA layer for their devices without any fstab et al. changes. These compat device nodes do not have to be so featureful that they support hdparm or smartd or anything like that, but they need to work well enough to mount filesystems, and mount swap partitions, and interact with device management systems like udev as if they were real IDE devices. 2) The two or so remaining devices which have IDE support but don't have an ATA layer driver need porting. I plan to work on #1 if I get the time. Someone with the requisite hardware needs to work on #2, and I'm sure whoever wants to work on that will find it easy to get help from some ATA layer experts. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
