Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] ata: add APM X-Gene SoC 6.0Gbps SATA PHY driver

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Hi,

> On Wednesday 20 November 2013, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 04:53:16PM -0700, Loc Ho wrote:
>> > This patch adds support for APM X-Gene SoC 6.0Gbps SATA PHY. This is the
>> > physical layer interface for the corresponding SATA host controller. This
>> > driver uses the new PHY generic framework posted by Kishon Vijay Abrahm.
>>
>> Hmm... this is related to ahci but isn't even a libata driver and is
>> the first such driver proposed.  Are we sure drivers/ata is the best
>> home for this?  Shouldn't we create a separate directory somewhere?
>> It's confusing, at least to me, to have non-libata driver under
>> drivers/ata.
>
> It needs to be in drivers/phy, which is currently being prepared for
> the next merge window and which contains the generic interface used
> in this driver.
[Loc Ho]
I will move it to drivers/phy. The PHY framework did make it to the
final release of 3.12.00.

-Loc
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