From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ata: ahci: find eSATA ports and flag them as removable
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:39:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150930213910.GG2627@mtj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1443640225-11860-1-git-send-email-manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 09:10:25PM +0200, Manuel Lauss wrote:
> If the AHCI ports' HPCP or ESP bits are set, the port
> should be considered external (e.g. eSATA) and is marked
> as removable. Userspace tools like udisks then treat it
> like an usb drive.
>
> With this patch applied, when I plug a drive into the esata port,
> KDE pops up a window asking what to do with the drives(s), just
> like it does for any random USB stick.
>
> Removability is indicated to the upper layers by way of the
> SCSI RMB bit, as I haven't found another way to signal
> userspace to treat a sata disk like any usb stick.
>
> Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
Applied to libata/for-4.4. Let's see what happens.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-30 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-30 19:10 [PATCH v2] ata: ahci: find eSATA ports and flag them as removable Manuel Lauss
2015-09-30 21:39 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2015-10-16 12:42 ` Mark Lord
2015-10-16 12:54 ` Tejun Heo
2015-10-19 2:32 ` Mark Lord
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