From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/7] acpi/libata: Express dependencies for devices on dock stations and bays Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:40:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4F79E477.5050201@garzik.org> References: <20120120001817.GA27706@homac.suse.de> <20120209073345.GA11121@homac.suse.de> <4F33E615.6070607@garzik.org> <4F796FD9.2010901@homac.de> <4F79C98B.6020201@garzik.org> <4F79D720.7040607@homac.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-qa0-f42.google.com ([209.85.216.42]:38039 "EHLO mail-qa0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752842Ab2DBRkK (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:40:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4F79D720.7040607@homac.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: holger@homac.de 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 04/02/2012 12:43 PM, Holger Macht wrote: > 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? You were CC'd... Jeff