[PATCH v3 1/1] add support for Seagate BlackArmor NAS220
From: sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com (Sebastian Hesselbarth)
Date: 2014-12-25 13:43:08
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On 25.12.2014 14:31, Andrew Lunn wrote:
On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 02:08:12PM +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:quoted
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+ status = "okay"; + }; + + sata at 80000 { + status = "okay"; + nr-ports = <2>;I need some update from the other mvebu guys here: Do we have SATA PHY nodes in v3.19 for Kirkwood already? If so, please update to the new binding.Hi Sebastian I'm not sure what you mean here. The binding Documentation says:
I was hoping that using phys/phy-names would allow us to get rid of nr-ports property. I haven't checked the corresponding code and likely will not before next year, but we should try to get rid of the nr-ports property completely.
Required Properties: - compatibility : "marvell,orion-sata" or "marvell,armada-370-sata" - reg : Address range of controller - interrupts : Interrupt controller is using - nr-ports : Number of SATA ports in use. Optional Properties: - phys : List of phandles to sata phys - phy-names : Should be "0", "1", etc, one number per phandle The optional phys/phy-names have just been added to kirkwood-6192.dtsi.
Yeah, saw that patch after the review.. and my understanding of the phys/phy-names properties is that (a) they allow to count the number of _available_ ports (b) they allow to determine the number of _used_ ports (c) they allow to e.g. disable port 0 but enable port 1 while nr-ports only allows (a). You can derive (b) only if you use the first out of two but you cannot do (c) with nr-ports. Which is why we introduced the phys/phy-names properties. Sebastian