On 2/10/2011 2:31 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > If you start the smart stuff then it also sometimes locks when it > shouldn't with devastating results for non technical users. I'd say When? Is there any specific case you can think of? >>> Hotplugging and being able to move hard drives between different >>> machines, and in general behaving consistently across different >>> hardware configurations have way higher priority than trying to avoid >> >> Your auto unlock change seems to address that issue just fine. > > No - because the drive may not even have a partition table on the other > OS. Huh? Either the drive has a partition table or it doesn't. It does not matter which machine you plug it into or what another OS is doing. -- 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