Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:41:52PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Do you even know if this special case is applicable outside of Dell ICH5
boxes? And I thought your previous messages were referring to ICH6?
Every laptop I have access to, whether it's SATA or PATA, fires an ACPI
notification when a drive is removed from a bay. The ICH5 case is
probably somewhat special-cased, but when we move over to driving PATA
with libata it's going to be a lot more useful. If ICH6 can be managed
without resorting to ACPI, it's less necessary in the short term, but I
think PATA support is going to require it in the end anyway (especially
since we probably want to call the _GTM and _STM methods on PATA
devices)
Yes, I do agree with this WRT PATA. Randy Dunlap's ACPI stuff is
particularly interesting for this, though I haven't had time to review
it in depth.
I'm a bit more reluctant WRT SATA.
Jeff
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