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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hotpluggable ide cd-rom drive?
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:50:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-104792420613907@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-104790612323451@msgid-missing>

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:56:28AM -0600, Kari Karhi wrote:
> 
> Is there a user level command to kick the ide-probe module into probing the
> ide bus again?  Or is work going on to get the kernel to support
> hot-pluggable ide drives?  Or am I just missing some configuration
> parameter?

Unfortunately this is usually done in a hardware specific way, and since
neither Dell, nor any other laptop manufacturer has provided the specs
for how to detect and do this kind of hot-swap, Linux does not support
it.

Sorry,

greg k-h


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-17 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-17 12:56 hotpluggable ide cd-rom drive? Kari Karhi
2003-03-17 17:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-03-17 19:05 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-03-17 19:09 ` Greg KH
2003-03-17 20:44 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-03-18 13:17 ` Kari Karhi
2003-03-18 17:56 ` Greg KH
2003-03-19 10:30 ` Paul Hedderly
2003-03-19 10:47 ` Paul Hedderly

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