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Date:   Thu, 18 Mar 2021 05:54:55 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] alpha: use libata instead of the legacy ide driver
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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?