Messages in this thread | | | From | Måns Rullgård <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/10] alpha: use libata instead of the legacy ide driver | Date | Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:03:42 +0000 |
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Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> writes:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes: > >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 05:54:55AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 05:56:57AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>> > Switch the alpha defconfig from the legacy ide driver to libata. >>> >>> Umm... I don't have an IDE alpha box in a usable shape (fans on >>> CPU module shat themselves), and it would take a while to resurrect >>> it, but I remember the joy it used to cause in some versions. >>> >>> Do you have reports of libata variants of drivers actually tested on >>> those? >> >> No, I haven't. The whole point is that we're not going to keep 40000 >> lines of code around despite notice for users that don't exist or >> care. If there is a regression we'll fix it, but we're not going to >> make life miserable just because we can. > > The pata_ali driver works fine on my UP1500 machine, unless something > broke recently. I'll build the latest kernel and report back.
5.11.7 seems fine too.
-- Måns Rullgård
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