From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: PATCH: straighten out the IDE layer locking and add hotplug Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:36:05 +0100 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1092677759.21013.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20040815151346.GA13761@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <200408161923.19024.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:7909 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266128AbUHPSib (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:38:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200408161923.19024.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Alan Cox , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , torvalds@osdl.org On Llu, 2004-08-16 at 18:23, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Sunday 15 August 2004 17:13, Alan Cox wrote: > > There really isnt any sane way to break this patch down because all the > > changes are interlinked so closely. > > at least /proc/ide/hd?/settings:ide-scsi removal and doc fixes are very easy > to separate, I also think that locking fixes should be separated from > hotplugging ones I continue to believe splitting the locking and hotplugging ones are essentially impossible without inventing a fake never written version. The other stuff can probably be done. If you can let me know which bits you are going to apply I can work on sorting out the rest. In the meantime I'll keep a -ac patch for people who want to work on the IDE bits or who need the fixes and driver updates. Alan