Re: [PATCH v5 0/13] SATA ZPODD support

Jeff Garzik
2012-06-22T18:41:29Z

On 06/18/2012 02:25 AM, Lin Ming wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is the v5 patches to add SATA ZPODD support, to try it:
> git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mlin/linux.git zpodd
>
> Holger and Mathtew,
> Patch 1 to Patch 4 are the libata acpi binding patches from you.
> I removed dock related code from your original version.
> Would you help to review?
>
> v5:
> - rebase to v3.5-rc3
> - fixed crash reported at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/24/2 (Aaron Lu)
> - rename is_pci_ata to compat_pci_ata (Alan Cox)
>
> v4:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/28/11
> - Includes libata acpi binding patches from Holger Macht and Matthew Garrett.
> - tell scsi layer device supports runtime power off
> - check support for device busy class events

In the case of this patchset, the main worry are the crashes that were
introduced by the Macht/Garrett patchset. Finally with v5 that
longstanding problem has been resolved, so we can move forward and get
this into linux-next (libata-dev.git#upstream).

Jeff