Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
Here you can see that it would be very easy for another driver to just add code to set the NO_HOTPLUG flag and then this code will work for them as well, since we power off the phy using DET which is specified by SATA.
here's that code:
Agreed. The main discussion in this sub-thread is more about user interface. The user interface in this case, a module option, is specific to AHCI.
Surely you can see how it is a bit silly to force each driver writer to create the same user interface in each driver, to support a generic concept.
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