On 01/31/2017 07:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

[1] which were a pain in the ass to untangle and debug during development,
it's really time for it to die..

Outside of the patch series in question, how to we expedite the
euthanasia of IDE? What explicit features/support are we missing through
libata that would need to be added, before we can git rm drivers/ide/ ?

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Jens Axboe