After a recent chat with Dave we agreed to try to finally kill off the legacy IDE code base. Set a two year grace period in which we try to move everyone over. There are a few pieces of hardware not supported by libata yet, but for many of them we aren't even sure if there are any users. For those that have users we have usually found a volunteer to add libata support. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- drivers/ide/ide-probe.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c index 5aeaca24a28f..4ad824984581 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c @@ -1437,6 +1437,9 @@ int ide_host_register(struct ide_host *host, const struct ide_port_info *d, ide_hwif_t *hwif, *mate = NULL; int i, j = 0; + pr_warn("legacy IDE will be removed in 2021, please switch to libata\n" + "Report any missing HW support to linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\n"); + ide_host_for_each_port(i, hwif, host) { if (hwif == NULL) { mate = NULL; -- 2.20.1