On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:52 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/08/2017 02:16 PM, Tom Psyborg wrote: >> Is it ever going to be added so this endless spam can end? > > It's the first iteration of the (S)ATA patchset, and if you are not > interested, just ignore the thread.
I mailed with Tom and it turns out he thinks openwrt-devel is getting spammed with these submissions. It's true in a sense: the patches are targeted for upstream and not for the openwrt repo. It's no big deal, I don't want to unnecessarily increase traffic on openwrt-devel if it is annoying to some. > Linus is doing everyone a great favor here by making sure that this > platform gets properly supported upstream such that the cost of > maintaining in OpenWrt/LEDE/anywhere else comes down to almost zero. I am porting to D-Link DIR-685 and DNS-313 as part of the process, so we have two new high-volume routers/NAS boxes as part of the process. I don't know how to fix the OpenWRT install and builds for these in the end though. It is actually probably an even bigger win though. We have learnt that Faraday Technology is sprinkling silicon blocks all over any silicon foundries close to Taiwan. Their stuff appear to be in a lot of cheap routers, NAS etc. They use the number of successful deployments of the IP block as a selling point. I guess these guys are commonly called in to consult when kickstarting silicon design, simply. It turns out that this and other silicon vendors such as Grain Media, Andestech, Moschip etc are using the same silicon blocks, so a bunch of out-of-tree code is actually just duplicate implementations of Faraday drivers... we already merged Gemini and MoxaArt in the upstream kernel so we have a common interrupt chip, timer, PCI driver, and now this IDE/ATA driver (not the FTIDE200 yet though). So there is maybe not as much unique silicon in the world as we have come to think, we need to pay attention to how register maps look on different things. Yours, Linus Walleij _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
