Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > This patch series implements Asynchronous Notification (AN) for SATA > ATAPI devices as defined in SATA 2.5 and AHCI 1.1 and higher. Drives > which support this feature will send a notification when new media is > inserted and removed, preventing the need for user space to poll for > new media. This support is exposed to user space via a flag that will > be set in /sys/block/sr*/capability_flags. If the flag is set, user > space can disable polling for the new media, and the genhd driver will > send a KOBJ_CHANGE event with the envp set to MEDIA_CHANGE_EVENT=1. > > Note that this patch only implements support for directly attached > drives - AN with drives attached to a port multiplier requires > additional changes. No objection from me. BTW, you're not setting ATA_FLAG_AN anywhere in the patch series, will that be a separate patch? -- 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
