remove the legacy ide driver v2

[Jens Axboe]

On 6/16/21 8:52 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 6/16/21 7:46 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> we've been trying to get rid of the legacy ide driver for a while now,
>> and finally scheduled a removal for 2021, which is three month old now.
>>
>> In general distros and most defconfigs have switched to libata long ago,
>> but there are a few exceptions.  This series first switches over all
>> remaining defconfigs to use libata and then removes the legacy ide
>> driver.
>>
>> libata mostly covers all hardware supported by the legacy ide driver.
>> There are three mips drivers that are not supported, but the linux-mips
>> list could not identify any users of those.  There also are two m68k
>> drivers that do not have libata equivalents, which might or might not
>> have users, so we'll need some input and possibly help from the m68k
>> community here.
>>
>> This series is against Jens' for-5.14/libata branch.
> 
> Unless someone complains loudly, I plan on queueing this up end this
> week.

This has now been applied for 5.14, thanks.

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Jens Axboe