From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: RFC: ACPI/scsi/libata integration and hotswap Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:38:28 +0000 Message-ID: <1134347909.2737.10.camel@localhost> References: <20051208145257.GB21946@srcf.ucam.org> <20051208171901.GA22451@srcf.ucam.org> <20051209114246.GB16945@infradead.org> <20051209114944.GA1068@havoc.gtf.org> <20051209115235.GB25771@srcf.ucam.org> <43997171.9060105@pobox.com> <20051209121124.GA25974@srcf.ucam.org> <439975AB.5000902@pobox.com> <20051209122457.GB26070@srcf.ucam.org> <439A23E8.3080407@pobox.com> <20051210023426.GA31220@srcf.ucam.org> <439A4070.2000500@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:23985 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750919AbVLKXie (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:38:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <439A4070.2000500@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Matthew Garrett , Christoph Hellwig , randy_d_dunlap@linux.intel.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Gwe, 2005-12-09 at 21:41 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Do you even know if this special case is applicable outside of Dell ICH5 > boxes? And I thought your previous messages were referring to ICH6? Some older thinkpads seem to support this. Also some laptops generate pnpbios changes. The different methods alone argue for a generic interface h