Re: PATCH: straighten out the IDE layer locking and add hotplug

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Tuesday 17 August 2004 16:05, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I hate HDIO_SCAN_HWIF and HDIO_UNREGISTER_HWIF and I still think we
> > should remove them - I waited with such changes for 2.7 but this plan
> > failed becuase there won't be 2.7 soon. :/
>
> Once you have drive and controller hot plug you don't need them. Until then
> some laptop users rely on them. I'd prefer to ignore the issue (its a
> privileged code path) until the hotplug is there, or patch it up by
> allowing unregister only of SCAN_HWIF added hwifs ?

IMO the correct approach is to remove them as a part of a patch series
which results in working hot plug support :)
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