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Re: [RFT] powerpc: convert amigaone_defconfig to use libata PATA drivers

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  Re: [RFT] powerpc: convert amigaone_defconfig to use libata PATA drivers Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-11-17 13:10 +0100

#1524441 — Re: [RFT] powerpc: convert amigaone_defconfig to use libata PATA drivers

On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 15:50:18 UTC, 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 amigaone_defconfig to use libata PATA
> drivers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/67f6d66559930eddea06c6bfdaf0e5

cheers

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