> If you are talking about SATA -- incorrect. > > The patch deals with policy, and the user MUST have the ability to > control this stuff. Otherwise you create a situation where the user > might be denied hotplug use in valid cases, or similar negative situations. The policy isn't however complicated. Tejun added the stuff for forcing cable type and mode on setup and has therefore written all the per device setup code we might need. Alternatively a single foo=1/0 option has been fine for acpi and will do fine for this. Total additional cost - 1 line. Alan -- 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