Re: [PATCH] ipr: Remove SATA support

Damien Le Moal
2023-04-13T07:50:00Z

On 4/13/23 16:35, John Garry wrote:
> On 12/04/2023 18:40, Brian King wrote:
>> Linux SATA support in ipr has always been limited to SATA DVDs. The last
>> systems that had the option of including a SATA DVD was Power 8,
>> which have been withdrawn for sometime now, so this support can
>> be removed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Brian King<brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>
> Thanks,
>
> Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
>
>> -#endif
>> .queuecommand = ipr_queuecommand,
>> - .dma_need_drain = ata_scsi_dma_need_drain,
>
> This would only be used by libsas now - maybe we should relocate it
> there (from libata), but prob better not.

Given that with this patch, all ATA drivers will use ->error_handler, there are
lots of cleanups we can do. Let's work on that once this patch is queued !