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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Lukasz Kosewski <lkosewsk@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add disk hotswap support to libata RESEND #5
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:09:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1128355771.26992.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <355e5e5e0510030819od4ef8e5l93708588990081da@mail.gmail.com>

On Llu, 2005-10-03 at 11:19 -0400, Lukasz Kosewski wrote:
> You mean something like "echo scsi-remove-single-device a b c d" >
> /proc/scsi/scsi?  I guess the sysfs equivalent?
> 
> > -       Interface for user to say "have swapped"
> 
> I suppose ditto.

Yes. A lot of PATA does swapping only if you tell it first so it can
kill IORDY or tristate the bus.

> > -       Post hotswap need to reconfigure both drives as if from scratch
> 
> Hmm, this seems far more complicated... basically during a swap
> operation, we have to shut down all I/O to the other drive on the
> cable (if there is one), if I read you correctly, and then reconfigure
> both drives once one is plugged in.

Yes.

> How about this; I want this SATA hotswapping stuff to be tested, so
> I'll commit my patches for 'SATA only' for the time being.  I'll stare
> at them for a while and then see what kind of PATA-specific if
> statements and hooks are necessary in the code?

Makes sense to me - the PATA stuff is slowly developing and its getting
closer to submittable as bits of the core code get merged.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-03 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-27  1:01 [PATCH 2/3] Add disk hotswap support to libata RESEND #5 Lukasz Kosewski
     [not found] ` <017101c5c39b$95699900$1b00a8c0@FRSNOTI>
2005-09-27 21:47   ` Lukasz Kosewski
2005-09-28 19:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-28 23:20   ` Alan Cox
2005-10-03 15:19     ` Lukasz Kosewski
2005-10-03 15:53       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-03 16:09       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-10-03 14:30   ` Lukasz Kosewski
2005-10-03 15:47     ` Jeff Garzik

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