On Thursday 31 July 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:11 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > > Note that there shouldn't be anything fundamentally different from > > > ide-pmac here vs. something like pcmcia IDE cards... do you have one > > of > > > these to test with ? > > > > Nope and I really don't intend to have one. I count on other people > > to take some care of support for host drivers that they > > maintain/use. ;) > > Hrm... that's not a very sane approach. You have some infrastructure for > adding / removing devices, in fact changes things in that area even, and There seems to be some confusion between warm-plugging of IDE devices and hot-plugging of IDE devices. > not a single piece of HW to exercise those code path ? I don't ask you > to get a powermac with a media-bay, but ide_cs seems to be a pretty > important one that's part of what the ide maintainer should take care > of... And I suspect it's going to exercise the same code path as > mediabay. I'm open for offers of co-maintaince of the code (which includes taking over particular host drivers) and since you seem to have pretty good insight into what ide maintainer should be doing I presume that you want to be added to MAINTAINERS? -- 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
