On Sat, 20 Mar 2021, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
been scheduled for removal for a while. Finally kill it off so that we can start cleaning up various bits of cruft it forced on the block layer.You need to adjust Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt too, i.e. remove all the `ide*' options, possibly more (I haven't checked in detail).
And also Documentation/ide/ide.rst. Also do we have all the necessary `hdparm' features supported in libata nowadays for PATA devices? Maciej