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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: straighten out the IDE layer locking and add hotplug
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:33:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040817153326.GA31746@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408171705.43974.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 05:05:43PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > You can't unload them in 2.4.
> Really?  That would simplify a lot of considerations...

I wanted to make that work but it proved too interesting in handing the
drive back to legacy

> > We can do it the 2.4-ac way - that works with the locking I think. What
> if you are talking about abusing HDIO_SCAN_HWIF then HELL NO

No I'm talking about the 2.4-ac way - using the bus state stuff which is
currently useless.

> > might be nicer if it works out is to follow the shutdown/suspend code
> > approach so that we actually queue the "unplug" into the command stream.
> 
> and we are back to lack of sysfs integration

Not really. We don't need sysfs to queue a series of command phases and then
drop the drive.

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-17 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-15 15:13 PATCH: straighten out the IDE layer locking and add hotplug Alan Cox
2004-08-16 17:23 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-16 17:36   ` Alan Cox
2004-08-16 22:29     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-16 21:43 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-16 21:48   ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 13:12 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 14:05   ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 14:30     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 14:46       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 15:05         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 15:33           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-17 14:40     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 14:12   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 14:18     ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 14:35       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 16:11   ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 20:40     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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