Mikael Pettersson wrote:
This patch implements a simple way of setting up per-port
flags on the SATA+PATA Promise TX2plus chips, which is a
prerequisite for supporting the PATA port on those chips.
It is based on the observation that ap->flags isn't really
used until after ->port_start() has been invoked. So it
places the "exceptional" per-port flags array in the driver's
private host structure, and uses it in ->port_start() to
finalise the port's flags.
This patch obsoletes the #promise-sata-pata branch included
in the #all branch.
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <[email protected]>
applied patches 1-2 to #upstream. minor follow-up comments follow in
separate emails.
Thanks a bunch for working on this, sata_promise has needed some "love"
for quite a while.
Any chance you could be talked to becoming "official" sata_promise
maintainer, by sending in a patch to MAINTAINERS?
One open issue that remains is port enumeration order. Bug reports
consistently indicate that the ports are numbered on the board (visible
to the naked eye) in a different manner than how the chip enumerates
each port. According to the bug reports, Promise's driver enumerates
the ports in the correct order.
Jeff
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