Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2014 14:07:51 +0200 | From | Antoine Ténart <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] ata: ahci: add AHCI support for the Berlin BG2Q |
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Hi Andrew,
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 04:12:21PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:16:54AM +0200, Antoine Ténart wrote:
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> I've no idea is this is a good or bad idea, but could you put all the > above code in the phy driver? It does seem to be mostly phy > related. Then teach the core ahci code about optional phy nodes in DT. > You can then probably do without a ahci berlin driver.
The code is PHY related, but the setup done is SATA specific. I think it makes sense to keep it here. From what I saw lots of PHY drivers only power up / down the PHYs.
Lots of port setups are done in the SATA framework, so it would separate related code into two subsystems.
Antoine
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