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 - have been replaced by their corresponding libata PATA host 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 -- 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
