[PATCH][sata_fsl] Defer non-ncq commands when ncq commands active

Kalra Ashish-B00888 ashish.kalra at freescale.com
Thu Jul 30 23:58:12 EST 2009


Hello Kumar,

>> > This doesn't look like it should change anything. sata_fsl_ops 
>> inherits
>> > from sata_pmp_port_ops, which inherits from sata_port_ops, which 
>> already
>> > sets qc_defer to ata_std_qc_defer.
>> Oh, yes. Actually this patch was for older kernels where there 
>> inheritence was not there. As you mentioned, this patch is not 
>> required now.
>>
>How old?  Should we be asking for this to be applied to some of the 
>stable kernel series?

I believe that the inheritence stuff was added in 2.6.26, thus, this patch is
required for quite old kernels ( < 2.6.26 ).

Thanks,

Ashish

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