[PATCH v2 3/4] ata: add APM X-Gene SoC 6.0Gbps SATA PHY driver

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Nov 20 10:41:19 EST 2013


On Wednesday 20 November 2013, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 04:53:16PM -0700, Loc Ho wrote:
> > This patch adds support for APM X-Gene SoC 6.0Gbps SATA PHY. This is the
> > physical layer interface for the corresponding SATA host controller. This
> > driver uses the new PHY generic framework posted by Kishon Vijay Abrahm.
> 
> Hmm... this is related to ahci but isn't even a libata driver and is
> the first such driver proposed.  Are we sure drivers/ata is the best
> home for this?  Shouldn't we create a separate directory somewhere?
> It's confusing, at least to me, to have non-libata driver under
> drivers/ata.

It needs to be in drivers/phy, which is currently being prepared for
the next merge window and which contains the generic interface used
in this driver.

	Arnd



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