Re: [ANNOUNCE] [PATCHES] Advanced TCA Hotswap Support in Linux Kernel

From: Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 15:34:23 EST


On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:28:59PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
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>
> Safte polling in the kernel isn't inherently bad and could be tied into
> the hotplug mechanism.
>
> Making SAFTE hotswap available via SG would also work but system
> performance would be bad at small poll intervals (like 100 msec).

Is there a real nead to get hotplug notification any faster than that?

And yes, it should all be done in userspace, whenever possible :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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