From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 1/5] AHCI Add the AHCI SATA feature on the MX53 platforms Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:12:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4E7B7A72.1020704@pobox.com> References: <1314762635-3923-1-git-send-email-richard.zhu@linaro.org> <1314762635-3923-2-git-send-email-richard.zhu@linaro.org> <20110920203037.GE31404@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:40133 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753007Ab1IVSMG (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:12:06 -0400 Received: by vws1 with SMTP id 1so3557209vws.19 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:12:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Zhu Cc: Sascha Hauer , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kernel@pengutronix.de, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, avorontsov@ru.mvista.com, eric@eukrea.com, eric.miao@linaro.org On 09/21/2011 03:05 AM, Richard Zhu wrote: > Hi Sascha: > One proposal about how to convert the ahci driver to devicetree in future. > ahci driver system can make a reference to the evolution of the sdhc driver. > > * separate the ahci to ahci common codes, ahci-pci driver and > ahci-platform driver. We already have this, with libahci. "libahci" == ahci common code "ahci" == AHCI PCI driver "ahci-platform" == AHCI platform driver Jeff