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

[Jeff Garzik]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:41:52PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>
> > Do you even know if this special case is applicable outside of Dell ICH5 
> > boxes?  And I thought your previous messages were referring to ICH6?
>
>
> Every laptop I have access to, whether it's SATA or PATA, fires an ACPI 
> notification when a drive is removed from a bay. The ICH5 case is 
> probably somewhat special-cased, but when we move over to driving PATA 
> with libata it's going to be a lot more useful. If ICH6 can be managed 
> without resorting to ACPI, it's less necessary in the short term, but I 
> think PATA support is going to require it in the end anyway (especially 
> since we probably want to call the _GTM and _STM methods on PATA 
> devices)

Yes, I do agree with this WRT PATA.  Randy Dunlap's ACPI stuff is 
particularly interesting for this, though I haven't had time to review 
it in depth.

I'm a bit more reluctant WRT SATA.

	Jeff


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