Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 12:08:07PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > >> Yeah, that's the intended behavior. SATA PHY link can break from time >> to time (have ever seen a SATA storage box going through ECC testing? >> PHY goes offline as soon as you begin to hit it with some EM pulses) and >> you don't really wanna lose your root partition over power fluctuation. > > In this case we explicitly know that it's in response to a hotplug event > (well, either that or the firmware is on impressive crack). Would it be > possible to communicate that in order to avoid the revalidation? No, I don't thinks so && I don't really think trusting firmware that much is a good idea. Also, it's much better to fix the problem in general than just fixing it for the firmware case which will be much less than the rest. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
