Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm: mvebu: adding SATA support: dt binding and configupdate

From: Gregory CLEMENT
Date: Thu Oct 25 2012 - 09:34:16 EST


On 10/25/2012 03:21 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Jason,
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:18:18 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
>
>>> Jason, Andrew, do you want I split this patch as suggested by
>>> Thomas or are you fine with having one single patch?
>>
>> Yes, please make the defconfig changes a separate patch. Also, please
>> make sure only the minimum is enabled (eq RAID... isn't needed).
>
> I haven't looked in details at the driver, but is nr-ports = <foo> the
> right way of doing things? We may have platforms were port 0 is not
> used, but port 1 is used, and just a number of ports doesn't allow to
> express this.
>
> Shouldn't the DT property be
>
> ports = <0>, <1>
> ports = <1>
> ports = <1>, <3>
>
> In order to allow to more precisely enabled SATA ports? Or maybe the
> SATA ports cannot be enabled/disabled on a per-port basis, in which
> case I'm obviously wrong here.

The actual implementation of mv_sata.c doesn't work like this. You can
only pass the number of ports supported not the list of the port you
want to support. I've checked in the device tree binding documentation
_and_ also in the code.


>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
>


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