Re: RFC: ACPI/scsi/libata integration and hotswap

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:26:57PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:15:42AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > NACK.  ACPI-specific hacks do not have any business at all in the scsi layer.
> 
> Ok. What's the right layer to do this? The current ACPI/anything else 
> glue depends on specific knowledge about the bus concerned, and needs 
> callbacks registered before devices are added to that bus. Doing it in 
> the sata layer would have the potential for unhappiness on mixed 
> sata/scsi machines.

Don't do it at all.  We don't need to fuck up every layer and driver for
intels braindamage.
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