From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 17:47:49 +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 > From: "Miles Lane" > Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 10:02 AM > > Here's an overview of where we are now. [ based on David Hinds' list ] > > 2. There is no mechanism to request a card eject in the new framework. > > This is required for clean shutdown of SCSI and IDE adapters. > > (Rusty Russell and other kernel developers are looking into > related improvements. Also, discussion has started on > linux-hotplug-devel) Exactly what is meant by "eject" though? "eject pcmcia-slot-1" can't exactly eject the drive, as it would for a CD or ZIP disc. And I think it might be good to avoid requiring each type of hotplug bus to have its own "eject" tool. I think what's meant is "disconnect the drivers and do electrical shutdown". USB needs corresponding functionality. I did a patch a while back, which I'll submit soonish; it turns out to be helpful for a variety of user-mode tools. It's an ioctl on the /proc/bus/usb device files ... perhaps that approach should be incorporated into the /proc/bus/pci device file support. - 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