From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: ide pmac breakage Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:48:28 +0200 Message-ID: <200807310248.29214.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <1217208596.11188.144.camel@pasglop> <200807302111.54514.bzolnier@gmail.com> <1217458152.11188.355.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.185]:43369 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751474AbYGaAu4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:50:56 -0400 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so224300fkq.5 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:50:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1217458152.11188.355.camel@pasglop> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: FUJITA Tomonori , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, petkovbb@gmail.com On Thursday 31 July 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:11 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > > Note that there shouldn't be anything fundamentally different from > > > ide-pmac here vs. something like pcmcia IDE cards... do you have one > > of > > > these to test with ? > > > > Nope and I really don't intend to have one. I count on other people > > to take some care of support for host drivers that they > > maintain/use. ;) > > Hrm... that's not a very sane approach. You have some infrastructure for > adding / removing devices, in fact changes things in that area even, and There seems to be some confusion between warm-plugging of IDE devices and hot-plugging of IDE devices. > not a single piece of HW to exercise those code path ? I don't ask you > to get a powermac with a media-bay, but ide_cs seems to be a pretty > important one that's part of what the ide maintainer should take care > of... And I suspect it's going to exercise the same code path as > mediabay. I'm open for offers of co-maintaince of the code (which includes taking over particular host drivers) and since you seem to have pretty good insight into what ide maintainer should be doing I presume that you want to be added to MAINTAINERS?