linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 014/115] ata: ahci_brcm: Match BCM63138 compatible strings

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Message-ID: <20191122032919.GL16867@sasha-vm>
Date:   Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:29:19 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 014/115] ata: ahci_brcm: Match BCM63138
 compatible strings

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 12:07:25PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>On 11/12/19 5:54 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit fb8506f15f2e394f5f648575cf48a26e8744390c ]
>>
>> Match the "brcm,bcm63138-ahci" compatible string in order to allow this
>> driver to probe on such platforms.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
>
>This is a feature and not really a bug fix, is someone specifically
>asking for this to be back ported? Also without the matching SATA PHY
>driver changes:
>
>7b69fa1c5c930886f8a916cc47096dd4044c007a ("phy: brcm-sata: Add BCM63138
>(DSL) PHY init sequence")
>
>this is pretty useless on its own. Same applies to all automatic
>selections, not just this kernel obviously.

Ah, I got it from a distro tree but I see the backported the driver too.
I'll drop it, thanks!

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha