RE: [PATCH 1/1] Add support 2 SATA ports for Maui and change filename from sata_dwc_460ex.c to sata_dwc_4xx.c

[Thang Nguyen <tqnguyen@apm.com>]

Thanks Jeff and Sergei,

As your suggestion, I will separate the patch into smaller patches and
support more features on the SATA DWC driver. The patches I intend to do
on the SATA DWC are as below:
 - Support hardreset: currently the hardreset is not supported. This
causes sometime the SATA driver does cause kernel crash because of
not-determined state.
 - Let device tree specified DMA channel: currently only channel 0 is
supported (number of channel is set to 1). If device tree not specified
DMA channel, channel 0 will be used as default.
 - Support ATAPI.
 - Remove dma_interrupt_count. for each DMA transfer, we need 2 interrupts
for QC completion: transfer completion and DMA transfer completion
interrupt. The current code wait for both 2 interrupts occur before
calling qc_complete. This will make out-of-sync state when an interrupt
lost or when errors occur. The change will process DMA register when DMA
transfer complete interrupt occur and call qc_issue when command
completion interrupt occur.
 - Fix NCQ issue and set .can_queue back to ATA_MAX_QUEUE.
 - Support Port Multiplier.
 - Support 2 SATA ports on Maui.

Regards,
Thang Nguyen-

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:jgpobox@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Garzik
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 3:05 AM
To: Sergei Shtylyov
Cc: Thang Q. Nguyen; Benjamin Herrenschmidt; Paul Mackerras; Grant Likely;
Rob Herring; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add support 2 SATA ports for Maui and change
filename from sata_dwc_460ex.c to sata_dwc_4xx.c

On 04/03/2012 07:56 AM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On 03-04-2012 14:12, Thang Q. Nguyen wrote:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Thang Q. Nguyen<tqnguyen@apm.com>
>> ---
>> Changes for v2:
>> - Use git rename feature to change the driver to the newname and for
>> easier review.
>
>> arch/powerpc/boot/dts/bluestone.dts | 21 +
>> drivers/ata/Makefile | 2 +-
>> drivers/ata/{sata_dwc_460ex.c => sata_dwc_4xx.c} | 1371
>> ++++++++++++++--------
>> 3 files changed, 904 insertions(+), 490 deletions(-)
>> rename drivers/ata/{sata_dwc_460ex.c => sata_dwc_4xx.c} (56%)
>
> You submitted a magapatch doing several things at once (some even
> needlessly) and even in two areas of the kernel. This needs proper
> splitting/description.

Agreed...
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