From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: CONFIG_IBM_BAY Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:04:03 +0000 Message-ID: <20070319140403.GA3697@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20070315133900.GC26862@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20070315080644.c73db24a.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> <20070315175505.GB6596@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20070315110156.09e80b99.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> <20070315193123.GB14394@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20070315125037.3e82e0c4.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> <45FCD062.3050001@gmail.com> <20070318082751.GA28591@homac2> <20070319132243.GA2869@srcf.ucam.org> <20070319134822.GA4885@homac2.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([217.147.92.49]:56654 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933897AbXCSOEn (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:04:43 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070319134822.GA4885@homac2.suse.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo , Kristen Carlson Accardi , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Len Brown , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:48:22PM +0100, Holger Macht wrote: > 1. libata integration into the bay driver It actually makes sense to tie all PATA/SATA devices to their ACPI handles where appropriate - there's already code to do that in libata-acpi.c, but it would be nicer if it was integrated in the same way that PCI devices are. > 2. The dock station driver has to inform the bay driver that an undock > event took place, right? Yeah. > But you still have to deal with mounted filesystems, no matter if it a > cardbus or a cdrom. Wouldn't we need something like 'save removal' > triggered from userspace like you maybe know from 'the other' operating > system? Yes, there's a need for a mechanism to deal with all of this safely, but the same is true of any storage device that can be hotplugged (USB, firewire, anything in a hotplug bay...) -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org