On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:46:56 -0400 Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:17:14AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >>> Laptop bays are designed to deal with hotplugging PATA - I don't think > >>> this is too much of an issue :) > >> The new SATA ones use the SATA hardware hotplug ;-) Just like the pci-e > >> cards use usb2.0 and pci-e hotplug... > > > > Yes, but they'll also send an ACPI interrupt even if the SATA host > > controller doesn't - it's part of the spec for bays. > > Regardless, having a laptop does not imply having a docking bay. > > Jeff > For bay devices, we can use ACPI just like we do now. For non-bay devices, we can implement hotplug via polling when ALPM is enabled. In my experience most laptop vendors implement extra drive as either PATA in a dock station, USB in a dock station, or a bay device either on the dock station, or on the laptop itself. Kristen - 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
