Hello, I've been working on getting docking/undocking to work and have written an acpi driver which handles dock/undock events and successfully hotplugs devices which either a) have another acpi driver or b) are on the PCI bus or c) are usb devices. I would like to be able to allow IDE devices that are on dock stations to be discovered after a dock, and gracefully removed after undock. IDE controllers that are PCI devices are hotadded without issues, but right now devices do not seem to be. I know from reading the archives of this list that there has been some effort in enabling hotplug for SATA? Is there some method that I should be using to tell the ide subsystem to rescan for new devices? I have built in a method that other drivers can use to be notified of dock events, and have also built in a way for other drivers to register hotplug routines that can be called after a dock event. Right now the pci hotplug driver acpiphp utilizes these functions to do the hotplug activities for pci based devices that are on the dock station, and I'd like to either figure out a way to do something similar for the ide devices, or else use a way that you have designed to indicate that a new device should be scanned for. Thanks for any advice you can give, Kristen - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
