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From: Tim Small <tim@seoss.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ata: Intel IDE-R support
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:02:13 +0100
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Tejun Heo wrote:
> There's no way to hotplug intel IDEs
> anyway.
>   

Won't kvm (or similar virtualisation system) + PCI passthrough allow you
to hot-plug arbitrary PCI devices?  Bit of a corner-case I know, but I
can see people occasionally doing this...

Tim.