On Llu, 2005-10-03 at 11:19 -0400, Lukasz Kosewski wrote: > You mean something like "echo scsi-remove-single-device a b c d" > > /proc/scsi/scsi? I guess the sysfs equivalent? > > > - Interface for user to say "have swapped" > > I suppose ditto. Yes. A lot of PATA does swapping only if you tell it first so it can kill IORDY or tristate the bus. > > - Post hotswap need to reconfigure both drives as if from scratch > > Hmm, this seems far more complicated... basically during a swap > operation, we have to shut down all I/O to the other drive on the > cable (if there is one), if I read you correctly, and then reconfigure > both drives once one is plugged in. Yes. > How about this; I want this SATA hotswapping stuff to be tested, so > I'll commit my patches for 'SATA only' for the time being. I'll stare > at them for a while and then see what kind of PATA-specific if > statements and hooks are necessary in the code? Makes sense to me - the PATA stuff is slowly developing and its getting closer to submittable as bits of the core code get merged. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
