Re: [PATCHv2 0/7] acpi/libata: Express dependencies for devices on dock stations and bays

[Holger Macht <holger@homac.de>]

On 27.03.2012 10:11, Lin Ming wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Jeff Garzik<jeff@garzik.org>  wrote:
>> On 02/09/2012 02:33 AM, Holger Macht wrote:
>>>
>>> On Do 09. Feb - 14:46:11, Lin Ming wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Holger Macht<holger@homac.de>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Patches 2 through 5 are just a refresh of the patches from Matthew
>>>>> Garrett sent to this list in September 2010 [1]:
>>>>>
>>>>> Patch 1 is a new patch incorporating the corrections from James
>>>>> Bottomley. Patch 6, 7 and 8 make the whole patch set actually work on my
>>>>> test hardware (Thinkpad x60/Thinkpad T60) by fixing minor issues and
>>>>> compensating changes after the first submission.
>>>>>
>>>>> All patches now contain the correct Signed-off-by instead of Acked-by
>>>>> tags.
>>>>>
>>>>>   [PATCH 1/8] scsi: Add wrapper to access and set scsi_bus_type in struct
>>>>> acpi_bus_type
>>>>>   [PATCH 2/8] libata: Bind the Linux device tree to the ACPI device tree
>>>>>   [PATCH 3/8] libata: Migrate ACPI code over to new bindings
>>>>>   [PATCH 4/8] acpi: Add support for linking docks to the objects they
>>>>> contain
>>>>>   [PATCH 5/8] libata: Add links between removable devices and docks
>>>>>   [PATCH 6/8] libata: Generate and pass correct acpi handles
>>>>>   [PATCH 7/8] acpi: Prevent duplicate hotplug device registration on dock
>>>>> stations
>>>>>   [PATCH 8/8] libata: Use correct PCI devices
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Holger,
>>>>
>>>> What's the status of these patches?
>>>
>>>
>>> They've been ACKed by both ACPI (Len Brown) and libata (James Bottomley)
>>> people, so I guess they are good to go and I'm waiting for someone (Jeff
>>> Garzik?) to pick them up.
>>
>>
>> I ACK'd for libata.  It's queued in libata-dev...  but looks like that did
>> not get pushed out.  Should show up in the next linux-next.
>>
>>         Jeff
>
> Hi,
>
> I didn't find these patches in libata-dev tree.
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git

They've been there, also in linux-next. But now I'm not able to find a 
trace of them. Maybe the two fixes from the thread labeled "linux-next: 
dock_link_device is oopsy" on linux-kernel@ didn't find their way into 
the trees and so the patches were removed. Just guessing...

Regards,
  Holger

> Are they removed for some reason?