From: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>,
Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>,
Tawfik Bayouk <tawfik@marvell.com>,
Nadav Haklai <nadavh@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: Manage SATA port multiplier while searching for active links
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:15:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <551A498A.2010008@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150330173515.GC9974@htj.duckdns.org>
Hi Tejun,
On 30/03/2015 19:35, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 07:32:45PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> From: Nadav Haklai <nadavh@marvell.com>
>>
>> With this patch, when searching for active link, first search through
>> the port multiplier links. And then fall to the default ap active_tag
>> only if no there is no active link in the port multiplier.
>
> What does this fix? What was broken before? What's the impact of the
> patch? A patch description which just restates the patch content
> isn't all that useful.
I _thought_ that the purpose of this patch was to manage the port multiplier,
and without this patch we don't only handle it. I will ask more detail and
come back with a new version of the patch with a more useful description.
Thanks,
Gregory
>
> Thanks.
>
--
Gregory Clement, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-30 17:32 [PATCH] sata_mv: Manage SATA port multiplier while searching for active links Gregory CLEMENT
2015-03-30 17:35 ` Tejun Heo
2015-03-31 7:15 ` Gregory CLEMENT [this message]
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