Dear Simon Guinot,

On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:54:28 +0100, Simon Guinot wrote:

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In some sense, we could say that this is not a regression. According to
what you mean, SATA hotplug has *never* been working on Armada 370/XP.
So technically, it could be seen as a new feature for this platform,
and is therefore not a regression (i.e something that used to work, and
that no longer works). There has been no kernel release for which SATA
hotplug was working for Armada 370/XP.

I agree with that. It is not correct to call this issue a regression.
But, it would also be nice to have this patch applied in the stable
branches 3.10 and onwards. Maybe, I could just add this information
while CC'ing Linux stable ?

Yes. Even though not a regression, I believe it qualifies for -stable,
at least according to the rules in
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com