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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, htejun@gmail.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] Asynchronous Notification for ATAPI devices (resend)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 23:14:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46565485.3000602@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070509163756.dd8136c7.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>

Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> Here are the AN patches again, they have not changed with the exception
> of patch #1, which does set the host flag in board_ahci and board_ahci_pi
> now (thanks Tejun).
> 
> This patch series implements Asynchronous Notification (AN) for SATA
> ATAPI devices as defined in SATA 2.5 and AHCI 1.1 and higher.  Drives
> which support this feature will send a notification when new media is
> inserted and removed, preventing the need for user space to poll for
> new media.  This support is exposed to user space via a flag that will
> be set in /sys/block/sr*/capability_flags.  If the flag is set, user
> space can disable polling for the new media, and the genhd driver will
> send a KOBJ_CHANGE event with the envp set to MEDIA_CHANGE_EVENT=1.
> 
> Note that this patch only implements support for directly attached
> drives - AN with drives attached to a port multiplier requires 
> additional changes.

Patches look OK to me...  it will take some coordination for the 
non-libata bits.  I think Andrew mentioned some of this.  And if the 
SCSI bits get stuck in the SCSI maintainer's bit bucket, let me know.

	Jeff




      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-25  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-09 23:37 [patch 0/7] Asynchronous Notification for ATAPI devices (resend) Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-05-25  3:14 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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