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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: libata hotplug question
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:05:39 +1100
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On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 08:48 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > One idea that comes to mind (I will try hacking something later
> today)
> > is to make ata_link_online() and ata_link_offline() use optional
> hooks
> > in the port ops so my driver can replace them instead of using the
> SATA
> > PHY stuff. Would that fly ?
> 
> Oh... yeah, that was the original intention when adding those
> functions but you wouldn't need them for hot plug/unplug.  Just set
> probe mask and freeze the port.  EH will do the right thing. 

Ok. I'll try that. Thanks.

Cheers,
Ben.