Hi Jeff, Here are the AN patches again, they have not changed with the exception of patch #1, which does set the host flag in board_ahci and board_ahci_pi now (thanks Tejun). This patch series implements Asynchronous Notification (AN) for SATA ATAPI devices as defined in SATA 2.5 and AHCI 1.1 and higher. Drives which support this feature will send a notification when new media is inserted and removed, preventing the need for user space to poll for new media. This support is exposed to user space via a flag that will be set in /sys/block/sr*/capability_flags. If the flag is set, user space can disable polling for the new media, and the genhd driver will send a KOBJ_CHANGE event with the envp set to MEDIA_CHANGE_EVENT=1. Note that this patch only implements support for directly attached drives - AN with drives attached to a port multiplier requires additional changes. Thanks! Kristen -- - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
