Subject: [PATCH v3 1/1] add support for Seagate BlackArmor NAS220

From: [email-masked] (Sebastian Hesselbarth)
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 14:43:01 +0100

On 25.12.2014 14:31, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 02:08:12PM +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>>> +			status = "okay";
>>> +		};
>>> +
>>> +		sata at 80000 {
>>> +			status = "okay";
>>> +			nr-ports = <2>;
>>
>> I need some update from the other mvebu guys here: Do we have SATA
>> PHY nodes in v3.19 for Kirkwood already? If so, please update to the
>> new binding.
>
> Hi Sebastian
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here. The binding Documentation says:

I was hoping that using phys/phy-names would allow us to get rid of
nr-ports property. I haven't checked the corresponding code and likely
will not before next year, but we should try to get rid of the nr-ports
property completely.

> Required Properties:
> - compatibility : "marvell,orion-sata" or "marvell,armada-370-sata"
> - reg           : Address range of controller
> - interrupts    : Interrupt controller is using
> - nr-ports      : Number of SATA ports in use.
>
> Optional Properties:
> - phys          : List of phandles to sata phys
> - phy-names     : Should be "0", "1", etc, one number per phandle
>
> The optional phys/phy-names have just been added to
> kirkwood-6192.dtsi.

Yeah, saw that patch after the review.. and my understanding of the
phys/phy-names properties is that
(a) they allow to count the number of _available_ ports
(b) they allow to determine the number of _used_ ports
(c) they allow to e.g. disable port 0 but enable port 1

while nr-ports only allows (a). You can derive (b) only if you use
the first out of two but you cannot do (c) with nr-ports.

Which is why we introduced the phys/phy-names properties.

Sebastian