[PATCH 00/12] SATA driver for APM X-Gene board

[Ike Panhc]

On 02/25/2014 05:52 PM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 05:22:09PM +0800, Ike Panhc wrote:
>> The patchset is also available at
>>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ikepanhc/public.git lp1282920
>>
>> APM posted SATA driver from X-Gene on linux-ide ML and its based on
>> several new API functions introduced for SUNXi SoCs by Hans de Goede
>> and 5 more patches has been cherry-picked.
>>
>> The SATA driver depends on PHY driver which is also cherry-picked.
>>
>> There are two slight modifications to make it compile-able and work
>>  * ahci_platform_put_resources must be exported
>>  * new ahci_platform_put_resources need one more parameter which not used
>> -	ahci_platform_put_resources(hpriv);
>> +	ahci_platform_put_resources(pdev, hpriv);
>>
>> Ref: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg47953.html
>>      http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg47944.html
>> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1282920
>>
>> We have v13 patchset with only comment update and Tejun Heo has some
>> feedback. I will update the driver once its available.
> 
> Do I take it from this that this is not yet final, but it is making it
> upstream?  I guess we should wait a bit before applying in that case.
> 
> -apw
> 

Looks like its not final yet. But since its v3.14-rc3 now and I believe
we have little chance to see they are upstreamed before trusty kernel
freeze.

Waiting a bit makes sense to me, since there are still feedback coming
in and Loc might respin the patchset.