Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ata: Add APM X-Gene SATA driver

Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-12T13:11:53Z

On Tuesday 12 November 2013, Loc Ho wrote:
> Hi Arnd/Olof,
>
> I looked over the phy code for USB and NET. There isn't such PHY
> infrastructure for SATA from what I can tell. It seems like I will
> need to put this all together. I am thinking about porting the USB
> version over (with changes for SATA) and put it under
> "./drivers/ata/phy". Any suggestion?

Please have a look at the patches under the subject "Generic PHY Framework"
posted by Kishon Vijay Abraham. I thought they would have made it in
by now, but I have not followed the recent kernels closely since I am
on parental leave at the moment.

IIRC they should unify USB, SATA and other PHY codes, but not network.

Arnd