Silbermann, Martine wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > > I'm contacting you because you seem to be responsible for libata (info I > got from googling, hope this is still true). I'm the leader of the > Hotplug Special Interest Group (SIG) created by OSDL. During our last > meeting the issue of support for hotplug SATA came up and what I found > on the web seemed to indicate that all SATA is hotplug but that libata > doesn't support hotplug yet. Could you please confirm that this is still > the case and may be give us an update on when you expect hotplug support. The latest Linux SATA status can always be found at http://linux.yyz.us/sata/ Hotplug controller support is already present. Hotplug device support for libata core will hopefully apear in 30-60 days. After that, it's just a matter of updating each SATA driver to support libata hotplug hooks. Jeff