Dear Simon Guinot, On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:54:28 +0100, Simon Guinot wrote: > > In some sense, we could say that this is not a regression. According to > > what you mean, SATA hotplug has *never* been working on Armada 370/XP. > > So technically, it could be seen as a new feature for this platform, > > and is therefore not a regression (i.e something that used to work, and > > that no longer works). There has been no kernel release for which SATA > > hotplug was working for Armada 370/XP. > > I agree with that. It is not correct to call this issue a regression. > But, it would also be nice to have this patch applied in the stable > branches 3.10 and onwards. Maybe, I could just add this information > while CC'ing Linux stable ? Yes. Even though not a regression, I believe it qualifies for -stable, at least according to the rules in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html