[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
Fri Dec 13 20:52:53 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 10:22 +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can't see any problem with adding this patch but it's probably pointless - 
> support for the Akebono board hasn't been merged yet.
> 
> The patch has been dropped from the stable tree (see 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/2/735).
> 


Thanks Alistair.  I'll drop it from the 3.8-stable queue too.

 -Kamal


> 
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:11:28 Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > 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/lin
> > ux-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
> > 
> > ------
> > 
> > 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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