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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:33:08PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

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

Doing SATA suspend/resume properly on x86 depends on knowing the ACPI 
object that corresponds to a host or target. It's also the only way to 
support hotswap on this hardware[1], since there's no way for userspace 
to know which device a notification refers to.

[1] ie, most laptops sold nowadays
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