Hello, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: >> 1. It will handle all device types (ATAPI, PATA, SATA, batteries); >> >> 2. It will do the right thing on plug and unplug. This means telling the >> rest of the kernel to disable the device in the bay, for example. Right now >> we shutdown one end of the PATA/SATA link on ThinkPads eletrically, and >> leave libata to scream blood murder until it disables its end due to too >> many retries, for example; :-) > Personally - I think tighter integration to libata here would be beneficial. > Once libata acpi support is straightened out, if we can store acpi handles > associated with libata devices, we can perhaps have a mechanism of obtaining > ata_device structs so that we can have a nice way of telling libata to > delete devices etc. I am hoping libata-acpi will be straightened out for > 2.6.22. I dunno what the thread is really about but can't this be dealt within acpid? Finding out the correct scsi host node can be tricky but I think it can be done reliably by jumping through some sysfs whoops. Once you're there, telling libata to kill or probe is really easy. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_hotswap_UltraBay_devices Thanks. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
