Re: [PATCH] libata: Handle bay devices in dock stations

From: Holger Macht
Date: Thu May 29 2008 - 09:36:46 EST


On Thu 29. May - 14:32:01, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 03:33:02PM +0200, Holger Macht wrote:
>
> > Can you please give a bit more details? Does your userspace react on the
> > eject request? I tested with Thinkpads, too.
>
> No, I'm not doing anything with userspace - just pulling the drive out
> directly. I'm looking into it now.

This was one of my test scenarios. Just a hint for debugging, before my
patch, HAL accessed /dev/sr0 directly after removing the device, and that
caused the lockup. Hopefully that doesn't bite us again...

- Holger
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