From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hinds Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 00:00:09 +0000 Subject: Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:27:26PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > How often is this used? Fairly rarely; there are currently around 15 types of cards that have override files for broken CIS information. > It's arguable that this is a bug in the SCSI and IDE drivers. Users _do_ > just pull cards out. We should deal with it, not oops and die. This is a > fundamental part of what hotplugging means, especially to users of > consumer devices. I would probably agree. Dealing with hot eject of a block device is fairly hard, though; beyond having the driver not oops, you also have to potentially deal with mounted filesystems going away. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel