On Sat, 2015-12-26 at 13:12 -0500, David Miller wrote: > IDE is in deep freeze maintainence mode. > > Therefore patches that perform simplications and cleanups will > not be accepted. Maybe there should be something like a README in drivers/ide that says that. Maybe the MAINTAINERS entry for "IDE SUBSYSTEM" should be something like: S: Frozen - critical fixes only -- 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