From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 2/9] libata: identify and init ZPODD devices Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:16:55 -0500 Message-ID: <50FD0787.90006@pobox.com> References: <1358241665-2156-1-git-send-email-aaron.lu@intel.com> <1358241665-2156-3-git-send-email-aaron.lu@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1358241665-2156-3-git-send-email-aaron.lu@intel.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Aaron Lu Cc: James Bottomley , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alan Stern , Tejun Heo , Aaron Lu , Jeff Wu , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 01/15/2013 04:20 AM, Aaron Lu wrote: > The ODD can be enabled for ZPODD if the following three conditions are > satisfied: > 1 The ODD supports device attention; > 2 The platform can runtime power off the ODD through ACPI; > 3 The ODD is either slot type or drawer type. > For such ODDs, zpodd_init is called and a new structure is allocated for > it to store ZPODD related stuffs. > > And the zpodd_dev_enabled function is used to test if ZPODD is currently > enabled for this ODD. > > A new config CONFIG_SATA_ZPODD is added to selectively build ZPODD code. > > Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu > Acked-by: Tejun Heo How possible is it to apply patches 2-6 right now? It appears possible according to my read, but I've not tested this guess. Jeff