On Thursday 09 March 2017 05:17 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

Hi Sekhar,

On Thursday, March 09, 2017 02:09:30 PM Sekhar Nori wrote:

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Hi Bartlomiej,

On Wednesday 08 March 2017 08:30 PM, Sekhar Nori wrote:

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It took a while to get to it but here is the draft driver patch
against v4.11-rc1.  Please test.

I tested this on DM6446 EVM. I was able to mount existing partitions on 
the hard disk and see that the directory listing looks good[1]. I will do 
more tests (including comparing performance with old driver) tomorrow. I 

I completed the tests I wanted to, including some read/write/data 
integrity tests. Performance is same as before too.

Tested-by: Sekhar Nori <redacted>

Thanks for testing!

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Here are the additional changes I did. These changes do not clash with 

I'll split the draft patch on ATA & platform changes and make a proper
submission.  I'll also include your changes (can I have your Signed-by
for them?).

Signed-of-by: Sekhar Nori [off-list ref]

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what I have already queued for v4.12. That said, its probably better if 
I carry the platform pieces through my tree. Let me know how you want 
to proceed.

I think that it would be the best to ask Tejun to make a separate branch
with a pata_bk3710 driver so it can be pulled into your tree to preserve
bisectability.

Sounds good. What about removal of IDE driver? Do you want to have both
drivers existing in v4.12 and get rid of the IDE driver in v4.13 ?

Thanks,
Sekhar