From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: ide pmac breakage Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:48:08 +1000 Message-ID: <1217497688.11188.446.camel@pasglop> References: <1217208596.11188.144.camel@pasglop> <200807302111.54514.bzolnier@gmail.com> <1217458152.11188.355.camel@pasglop> <200807310248.29214.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20080731094901.062a2602@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1217495493.11188.441.camel@pasglop> <20080731101322.18735e64@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:38434 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752274AbYGaJs2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:48:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080731101322.18735e64@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , FUJITA Tomonori , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, petkovbb@gmail.com On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:13 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I could make the media-bay look like a controller hotplug if it was > > going to make things easier... > > I'm not sure it will. It may do nowdays, but the older IDE code > historically was fairly broken for both cases except in 2.4. Also faking > it as controller hotplug is the wrong path for libata which does real > drive hot plug. Yeah, that was my line of thinking initially, also the fact that it has the nice side effect of keeping the minor number stable. Ben.