On Sun, 06 May 2007 12:15:34 +0200 Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Yes - unfortunately I realized I'd forgotten to add that file to my quilt patch about 5 minutes after I sent it :). I thought if there were no other revisions to this patch, I'd just send a separate one, otherwise I'd incorporate it into the next version. - 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
