Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: sgpio for nvidia mcp55 -v3

[Jeff Garzik]

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Impact: new features
>
> based on patch on
>     http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=116289338705418&w=2
>
> 1. update the patch for 2.6.19 to latest upstream ( 2.6.28?)
> 2. fix shared sgpio to support several mcp55 + io55, so every mcp55 have
>    seperate spinlock
> 3. use scratch_source as numbering of sgpio instead of address of struct,
>    so could go through kexec/kdump
>
> v2: revert NV_ON and NV_OFF, so turn on Activity LED all the time when disk is idle.
> v3: use one timer per sgpio instead of per nv_host, so for mcp55+io55 system will use 2 timers
>     instead of 6 timers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>  drivers/ata/sata_nv.c |  562 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 562 insertions(+)


Is this really over 500 LOC, just to blink some lights from the data 
xfer hot path?  :)

	Jeff



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