From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] bay: Exit if notify handler cannot be installed Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 16:20:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20080506162049.237af49c@core> References: <20080505202508.GA3690@homac> <20080506091522.GA4378@homac> <1210065811.12668.1.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> <20080506151846.GA22828@khazad-dum.debian.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:38246 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756239AbYEFPbx (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 11:31:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080506151846.GA22828@khazad-dum.debian.net> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Shaohua Li , Holger Macht , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Accardi, Kristen C" On Tue, 6 May 2008 12:18:46 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 06 May 2008, Shaohua Li wrote: > > The bay driver is duplicated with libata, I thought we should delete it. > > See bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9526 > > The bay driver is currently useless, BUT it should handle a lot of stuff > libata won't, such as bay batteries, bay floppies, and anything else in > a bay that is not a hard disk. The bay driver needs to become a service that hands out bay events to all the other drivers for that to happen.