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Hi,

On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 08:06:10 PM Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:42:54PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > You're right in your doubting: there are quite a lot of drivers used
> > by embedded platforms that nobody has bothered to convert to libata
> > thus far.
> 
> Hold on, what does that mean? IDE is back from the dead and used only
> for embedded stuff?

No, it means that there are legacy PATA chipsets (some used by embedded
platforms) that are only supported by IDE host drivers.

> Or we force people to convert drivers to libata by *deleting* ide?
> 
> :-)

If there is a need I should be able to help in converting these leftover
drivers before we delete IDE.  Once I find some time I will go over all
IDE host drivers, make a list of affected hardware and start a discussion
on IDE removal.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics