Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 05:54:55AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 05:56:57AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> > Switch the alpha defconfig from the legacy ide driver to libata. >> >> Umm... I don't have an IDE alpha box in a usable shape (fans on >> CPU module shat themselves), and it would take a while to resurrect >> it, but I remember the joy it used to cause in some versions. >> >> Do you have reports of libata variants of drivers actually tested on >> those? > > No, I haven't. The whole point is that we're not going to keep 40000 > lines of code around despite notice for users that don't exist or > care. If there is a regression we'll fix it, but we're not going to > make life miserable just because we can. The pata_ali driver works fine on my UP1500 machine, unless something broke recently. I'll build the latest kernel and report back. -- Måns Rullgård
