From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755890AbaCZRgs (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:36:48 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:50639 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751906AbaCZRgq (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:36:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:36:03 +0000 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Andrew Lunn , Tejun Heo , Jason Cooper , Gregory Clement , Sebastian Hesselbarth , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata: fix Marvell SATA driver dependencies Message-ID: <20140326173603.50e50e34@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4852939.9jMb8Bv2x2@amdc1032> References: <5138028.BSQbEP7RRB@amdc1032> <20140326162302.GG25349@lunn.ch> <20140326165904.70de238d@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> <4852939.9jMb8Bv2x2@amdc1032> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > shows up it is not enough to enable driver for it to make it work as > you also need to add a node describing your SATA MV variant to your SoC > device tree file (which requires updating kernel source anyway). You still have to recompile your kernel to update your device tree.. how... quaint ;-). It's not a generic limitation but I'm not that fussed. It seems a fair argument that there would be other changes made when this was being done for a system, and probably new board stuff. Alan