From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Holger Macht Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/7] acpi/libata: Express dependencies for devices on dock stations and bays Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:43:12 +0200 Message-ID: <4F79D720.7040607@homac.de> References: <20120120001817.GA27706@homac.suse.de> <20120209073345.GA11121@homac.suse.de> <4F33E615.6070607@garzik.org> <4F796FD9.2010901@homac.de> <4F79C98B.6020201@garzik.org> Reply-To: holger@homac.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wp050.webpack.hosteurope.de ([80.237.132.57]:44620 "EHLO wp050.webpack.hosteurope.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751805Ab2DBQnW (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2012 12:43:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4F79C98B.6020201@garzik.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Lin Ming , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett , James Bottomley , Jeff Garzik , sfr@canb.auug.org.au On 02.04.2012 17:45, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On 04/02/2012 05:22 AM, Holger Macht wrote: >> On 27.03.2012 10:11, Lin Ming wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Jeff Garzik 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 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? > > They were removed because people had problems with them, and the patch > authors did not engage and fix the problem(s). Matthew Garrett spoke up > and said he didn't have time to investigate, so the patches were dropped. Do you have a pointer for the problems? Thanks, Holger