From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] acpi/libata: Express dependencies for devices on dock stations and bays Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:40:41 -0500 Message-ID: <4F165B59.8050609@kernel.org> References: <20111206163718.GA3629@homac.suse.de> <20120105103651.GB13066@homac.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f194.google.com ([209.85.216.194]:46467 "EHLO mail-qy0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753071Ab2ARFkp (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:40:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20120105103651.GB13066@homac.suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Holger Macht , Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett , Shaohua Li , Tejun Heo On 01/05/2012 05:36 AM, Holger Macht wrote: > On Di 06. Dez - 17:37:19, Holger Macht wrote: >> Patches 1 through 5 are just a refresh of the patches from Matthew >> Garrett sent to this list in September 2010 [1]: >> >> [PATCH 1/7] scsi: Export scsi_bus_type >> [PATCH 2/7] libata: Bind the Linux device tree to the ACPI device tree >> [PATCH 3/7] libata: Migrate ACPI code over to new bindings >> [PATCH 4/7] acpi: Add support for linking docks to the objects they contain >> [PATCH 5/7] libata: Add links between removable devices and docks >> >> Patches 6 and 7 make the patches actually work on my test hardware >> (Thinkpad x60/Thingpad T60) by fixing some minor issues. >> >> [PATCH 6/7] libata: Generate and pass correct acpi handles >> [PATCH 7/7] acpi: Prevent duplicate hotplug device registration on dock stations > > So, due to the merge window for 3.3 being open, I like to give this > patch set a heads up. > > Matthew, any word on this? > > Len, I really would like to see this merged because it would really make > the docking station stuff kind of feature complete, finally. Nice to see this effort. I hadn't noticed it before. This is mostly an ATA patch, and so I would hope to see Tejun review it and Jeff Garzik ship it in his ata tree. I don't see any problem w/ the ACPI bits. thanks, -Len drivers/acpi/dock.c | 98 +++++++++++++++ drivers/acpi/glue.c | 2 + drivers/ata/libata-acpi.c | 274 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 6 +- drivers/ata/libata-pmp.c | 4 - drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 3 + drivers/ata/libata.h | 13 ++- drivers/ata/pata_acpi.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_priv.h | 1 - include/acpi/acpi_drivers.h | 11 ++ include/linux/libata.h | 7 +- include/scsi/scsi.h | 2 + 12 files changed, 294 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)