On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:41:57AM +0530, vinit bidkar wrote: > Hi Jeff, Tejun, > > Got your mail > Need some info detection of e-sata hot plug connected to a port multiplier. > > System: > Kernel - 2.6.x > PMP - Marvell make > > There is one internal HDD on port 0 and provision to hot plug e-SATA on port > 1 of the PMP. > > Internal HDD gets detected at bootup. No problems here. > > MY PROBLEM - How to detect e-SATA when the system is running (hot plug). > > MY PROBABLE SOLUTION - Keep polling the PMP ports to find attachment and > detachment of e-SATA on various ports and inform the application about the > same. Eh? Why doesn't it work automatically? Doesn't the host controller support Snotification? -- tejun -- 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