[U-Boot] is it worth contributing a SATA SIL3512 driver to u-boot?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 10 Dec 2015, Fabio Estevam wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >   on current project, someone handed me a patch containing (among
> > other thigns) source and header files for support for SATA SIL3512 --
> > copyright shows they're under GPL. rather than carrying around that
> > part of the patch, is it worth simply handing that over to u-boot to
> > add under drivers/block/?
>
> Yes, feel free to submit it, but please make sure there is an user for
> this driver as well.

  well, the contract i'm working on will be using it for porting linux
to a *lot* of older platforms so, technically, i'm that user. :-)

rday

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