On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 05:51:42PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > 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. However there are still > some users (mostly old or/and embedded non-x86 systems) that > have not converted from using IDE subsystem to libata PATA > drivers. This doesn't seem to be good thing in the long-term > for Linux as while there is less and less PATA systems left > in use: > > * testing efforts are divided between two subsystems > > * having duplicate drivers for same hardware confuses users > > This patch converts bigsur_defconfig to use libata PATA > drivers (tc86c001 IDE host driver has no corresponding libata > driver yet so it is not converted). > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Build tested only. > If you have affected hardware please test. Thank you. Nobody replied so I applied all 17 patches. I've only too often updated the config I'm actually using to use libata so thanks to doing this for all configs! Ralf