[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "ahci: add support for IBM Akebono platform device" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Dec 11 22:11:28 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ahci: add support for IBM Akebono platform device

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.15.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 95dd9a506a29056b5067e2f2f91683c2dfcc9b92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alistair Popple <alistair at popple.id.au>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:08:29 +1100
Subject: ahci: add support for IBM Akebono platform device

commit 2435dcb98cfe13c246aa27df393e22bc24bbcd20 upstream.

The new IBM Akebono board has a PPC476GTR SoC with an AHCI compliant
SATA controller. This patch adds a compatible property for the new SoC
to the AHCI platform driver.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair at popple.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c b/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c
index 2daaee0..e38399d 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c
@@ -328,6 +328,7 @@ static SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(ahci_pm_ops, ahci_suspend, ahci_resume);
 static const struct of_device_id ahci_of_match[] = {
 	{ .compatible = "snps,spear-ahci", },
 	{ .compatible = "snps,exynos5440-ahci", },
+	{ .compatible = "ibm,476gtr-ahci", },
 	{},
 };
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, ahci_of_match);
--
1.8.3.2





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