On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:13 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I could make the media-bay look like a controller hotplug if it was > > going to make things easier... > > I'm not sure it will. It may do nowdays, but the older IDE code > historically was fairly broken for both cases except in 2.4. Also faking > it as controller hotplug is the wrong path for libata which does real > drive hot plug. Yeah, that was my line of thinking initially, also the fact that it has the nice side effect of keeping the minor number stable. Ben. -- 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