From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: SATA hotplug status (sii3114) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:09:09 -0500 Message-ID: <41E84305.5070202@pobox.com> References: <41E8292A.40302@dot21rts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:24273 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262197AbVANWJ1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:09:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <41E8292A.40302@dot21rts.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andy Helten Cc: linux-kernel , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Andy Helten wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me the current status of hotplug support? The SATA web > site says only this: > >> libata does not support hotplug... yet. > > > > Is there a plan or design for adding hotplug support? Can anyone point > me to any discussions on this matter. I am new to Linux kernel > development, but I have searched the archives and found nothing very > helpful (except for the mention of the echo commands I tried below). > There could be a simple solution that is evading me, but I've looked for > two days now without much success. There's a plan but no code yet. :) linux-ide@vger.kernel.org is where this stuff gets discussed (though there's nothing on there recently about hotplug). Jeff