On Tue, 2017-01-31 at 10:02 -0800, Jens Axboe wrote:

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

quoted

[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/?

I thought the primary objection was actually embedded in that libata
with its reliance on SCSI was just too large a dependency, so they have
to keep using drivers/ide.  Perhaps nvme and flash is obviating this
problem and we can ask them again, though?

James