Re: [patch 3/3] Enable Aggressive Link Power management for AHCI controllers.

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:18:19AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > 
> > > On laptops, I suspect that we'll probably get an ACPI interrupt even if 
> > > the AHCI hotplug pathway can't manage.
> > 
> > As long as we don't crash the drive or AHCI controller because we hotplugged
> > it in a way it didn't like (like trying to hotplug a ICH5R would cause).
> 
> Laptop bays are designed to deal with hotplugging PATA - I don't think 
> this is too much of an issue :)

The new SATA ones use the SATA hardware hotplug ;-)   Just like the pci-e
cards use usb2.0 and pci-e hotplug...

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  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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