Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] ata: ahci_st: Provide DT bindings for ST's SATA implementation

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: 2014-03-12 19:00:30
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On Wednesday 12 March 2014 17:14:52 Lee Jones wrote:

quoted

+This binding describes a SATA device.
+
+Required properties:
+ - compatible         : Must be "st,ahci"

Is there not a more specific name? This is awfully generic.

There isn't one. ST only have one AHCI driver. The driver is named as
generically.

If it is this generic, can't you use the completely generic
ahci-platform driver and add a "generic-ahci" compatible string
to that?

It pretty much does. The only 'special' functionality we handle in
the driver are resets and configuring the OOB. However, both are
required.

The reset handling should be easy to add to the generic driver
usign as an optional property if I'm not mistaken.

What is OOB?

	Arnd