On Monday 13 June 2005 13:07, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > > > I don't know either. For the FR1 code I implemented three new ioctls .. > > > all of them sent out by the FR1 (raid1) driver. > > > > > > 1) notify component that it is in an array and which > > > 2) notify component that it is no longer in an array and which > > > 3) send component a callback function through which it can > > > SET_FAULTY and re-HOTADD itself to the array it kno it is in > > > as need be. > > > > > > Maybe hotplugging has those facilities. I don't know. > > > > > > Cooperating devices would have to implement the ioctls. > > > > If I understand right, even if I used FR1, it wont pass the test > > Yes it will. The device driver will detect something wrong (if the > device driver doesn't know, NOBODY does) and call back to the raid array > driver to say "set me faulty". > > That's the whole idea. > > When the device driver senses its device is well again, it will call > back and say "hot add me again". > > Peter But not as it is today... when you say "Cooperating devices would have to implement the ioctls." means that I have to touch sata_nv's source code to implement those ioctls, am I right? If that is all I have to do, I will give it a try (supposing my boss does not make me use the raid in the motherboard) . Thanks a lot, -- Diego. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
