On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:48:22PM +0100, Holger Macht wrote: > 1. libata integration into the bay driver It actually makes sense to tie all PATA/SATA devices to their ACPI handles where appropriate - there's already code to do that in libata-acpi.c, but it would be nicer if it was integrated in the same way that PCI devices are. > 2. The dock station driver has to inform the bay driver that an undock > event took place, right? Yeah. > But you still have to deal with mounted filesystems, no matter if it a > cardbus or a cdrom. Wouldn't we need something like 'save removal' > triggered from userspace like you maybe know from 'the other' operating > system? Yes, there's a need for a mechanism to deal with all of this safely, but the same is true of any storage device that can be hotplugged (USB, firewire, anything in a hotplug bay...) -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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
