[PATCH 1/1] Add support 2 SATA ports for Maui and change filename from sata_dwc_460ex.c to sata_dwc_4xx.c

[Jeff Garzik]

On 04/13/2012 03:18 AM, Thang Nguyen wrote:
> Thanks Jeff and Sergei,
>
> As your suggestion, I will separate the patch into smaller patches and
> support more features on the SATA DWC driver. The patches I intend to do
> on the SATA DWC are as below:
>   - Support hardreset: currently the hardreset is not supported. This
> causes sometime the SATA driver does cause kernel crash because of
> not-determined state.
>   - Let device tree specified DMA channel: currently only channel 0 is
> supported (number of channel is set to 1). If device tree not specified
> DMA channel, channel 0 will be used as default.
>   - Support ATAPI.
>   - Remove dma_interrupt_count. for each DMA transfer, we need 2 interrupts
> for QC completion: transfer completion and DMA transfer completion
> interrupt. The current code wait for both 2 interrupts occur before
> calling qc_complete. This will make out-of-sync state when an interrupt
> lost or when errors occur. The change will process DMA register when DMA
> transfer complete interrupt occur and call qc_issue when command
> completion interrupt occur.
>   - Fix NCQ issue and set .can_queue back to ATA_MAX_QUEUE.
>   - Support Port Multiplier.
>   - Support 2 SATA ports on Maui.

Sounds good, thanks for splitting up the patch into smaller pieces.  The 
main goal is that separate logical changes should go into separate patches.

	Jeff