Re: [REGRESSION] 8a3e33cf92c7 "ata: ahci: find eSATA ports and flag them as removable" changes userspace behavior

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Laura.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:37:09AM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> The mounting comes from udisks. udisks will automount anything marked as removable
> unless explicitly forbidden. You can argue whether or not this is good design but
> it's still a change in behavior from what udisks was relying on to decide
> whether or not to automount. lspci from the users hardware:
> 
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset 6-Port SATA
> AHCI Controller (rev 06)

It is a behavior change but difficult to characterize as a breakage,
given that we do want userland to treat ports explicitly marked as
external to be treated as such.  That said, eSATA being mostly a
fringe thing, we can go "whatever" and revert it.

Let's hope it's a false positive that the patch can fix.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun