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From: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com (Thomas Petazzoni)
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 14:34:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ata: sata_mv: setting PHY speed according to SControl
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Dear Simon Guinot,

On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:54:28 +0100, Simon Guinot wrote:

> > In some sense, we could say that this is not a regression. According to
> > what you mean, SATA hotplug has *never* been working on Armada 370/XP.
> > So technically, it could be seen as a new feature for this platform,
> > and is therefore not a regression (i.e something that used to work, and
> > that no longer works). There has been no kernel release for which SATA
> > hotplug was working for Armada 370/XP.
> 
> I agree with that. It is not correct to call this issue a regression.
> But, it would also be nice to have this patch applied in the stable
> branches 3.10 and onwards. Maybe, I could just add this information
> while CC'ing Linux stable ?

Yes. Even though not a regression, I believe it qualifies for -stable,
at least according to the rules in
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com