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Whether Linux will remove the traditional IDE driver support, this article introduces the corresponding analysis and solution in detail, hoping to help more partners who want to solve this problem to find a more simple and easy way.

According to the mailing list, Linux may remove traditional IDE driver support.

If the proposal goes according to plan, there will be no IDE driver support code starting from Linux 5.13. In fact, these traditional IDE driver codes were deprecated two years ago and marked to be deleted in 2021. Currently, Christoph Hellwig is following up on the removal plan.

It is important to note that only traditional IDE driver support has been removed this time. Since many users still use IDE devices on older devices, IDE support itself is still available through the libata layer in the current Linux kernel version. For the Linux kernel, it has relied on the libata layer for better support for nearly 20 years, so the libata code will be retained and the previous IDE driver support has been removed.

Although there may still be some niche traditional hardware platforms that still use the traditional IDE driver, removing it would save more than 41000 lines of code for the Linux kernel and allow more cleanup of the block layer of the Linux kernel.

This is the answer to the question about whether Linux will remove the traditional IDE driver support. I hope the above content can be of some help to you. If you still have a lot of doubts to be solved, you can follow the industry information channel for more related knowledge.

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