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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/10] alpha: use libata instead of the legacy ide driver
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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.

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Måns Rullgård

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