On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 02:17:21PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 03:13:24PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > >> The Broadcom SBA RAID is a stream-based device which provides > >> RAID5/6 offload. > >> > >> It requires a SoC specific ring manager (such as Broadcom FlexRM > >> ring manager) to provide ring-based programming interface. Due to > >> this, the Broadcom SBA RAID driver (mailbox client) implements > >> DMA device having one DMA channel using a set of mailbox channels > >> provided by Broadcom SoC specific ring manager driver (mailbox > >> controller). > >> > >> The Broadcom SBA RAID hardware requires PQ disk position instead > >> of PQ disk coefficient. To address this, we have added raid_gflog > >> table which will help driver to convert PQ disk coefficient to PQ > >> disk position. > >> > >> This patchset is based on Linux-4.11-rc1 and depends on patchset > >> "[PATCH v5 0/2] Broadcom FlexRM ring manager support" > > > > Okay I applied and was about to push when I noticed this :( > > > > So what is the status of this..? > > PATCH2 is Acked but PATCH1 is under-review. Currently, its > v6 of that patchset. > > The only dependency on that patchset is the changes in > brcm-message.h which are required by this BCM-SBA-RAID > driver. > > @Jassi, > Can you please have a look at PATCH v6? And I would need an immutable branch/tag once merged. I am going to keep this series pending till then. -- ~Vinod
