On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:53:29PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote: > Well, a flag that says 'hotplug' and means both the controller and bus > support hotplugging might be SCSI specific. However, the fact is that > most people make such a determination on the bus type, so it's a bit > redundant (in true SCSI there really is no controller on a hotplug bus > that doesn't support hotplug because they can't scan the bus without > it). If you intend to use it to make link power management decisions, > that's completely different because SAS PM support still isn't > standardised and most of the rest of SCSI doesn't have it either. So it > sounds to me you're looking for a flag that says "might have a problem > with SATA link power management" ... in which case this is currently > libata specific. We might be able to expand it to libsas if (when) we > actually get link power management standardised, but a lot of the other > busses aren't even going to have a concept of link power management. Makes sense. I'll respin it as a libata feature. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
