Re: [PATCH v9 3/7] ata: libahci: allow to use multiple PHYs

From: Antoine Ténart
Date: Tue Jul 08 2014 - 13:05:45 EST


On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:42:03AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> One more thing.
>
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:16:09PM +0200, Antoine Ténart wrote:
> > This introduce a new way of defining SATA ports in the device tree, with
> > one port per sub-node. This as the advantage of allowing a per port
> > configuration. Because some ports may be accessible but disabled in the
> > device tree, the default port_map is computed automatically when using
> > this.
>
> Any chance the old one phy config can be moved over to this scheme so
> that we don't have to carry two separate mechanisms?

That would break the DT ABI.


Antoine

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