Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc4 1/2] sata_promise: TX2plus PATA support

Mikael Pettersson wrote:

This patch implements a simple way of setting up per-port
flags on the SATA+PATA Promise TX2plus chips, which is a
prerequisite for supporting the PATA port on those chips.

It is based on the observation that ap->flags isn't really
used until after ->port_start() has been invoked. So it
places the "exceptional" per-port flags array in the driver's
private host structure, and uses it in ->port_start() to
finalise the port's flags.

This patch obsoletes the #promise-sata-pata branch included
in the #all branch.

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <redacted>

applied patches 1-2 to #upstream.  minor follow-up comments follow in 
separate emails.

Thanks a bunch for working on this, sata_promise has needed some "love" 
for quite a while.

Any chance you could be talked to becoming "official" sata_promise 
maintainer, by sending in a patch to MAINTAINERS?

One open issue that remains is port enumeration order.  Bug reports 
consistently indicate that the ports are numbered on the board (visible 
to the naked eye) in a different manner than how the chip enumerates 
each port.  According to the bug reports, Promise's driver enumerates 
the ports in the correct order.

	Jeff