From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: libata question Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:06:00 +0900 Message-ID: <44CFA618.2090204@gmail.com> References: <1154445491.18593.111.camel@acme> <44CF7447.300@gmail.com> <1154457583.4665.5.camel@shark.pacific> <44CFA15C.8080109@gmail.com> <1154458981.4665.9.camel@shark.pacific> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.179]:2089 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751800AbWHATGF (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:06:05 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id t32so1303261pyc for ; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:06:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1154458981.4665.9.camel@shark.pacific> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: roger@opq.se Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 03:45 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: >> Roger Oberholtzer wrote: >>> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 00:33 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: >>>> Roger Oberholtzer wrote: >>>>> Should hotplug work with Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 >>>>> Family) chipset? I am trying kernel 2.6.17.7 >> Ah.. I should have spotted this earlier. 2.6.17.7 doesn't contain >> updated EH and doesn't support any of new features including >> hot/warmplug. Please try 2.6.18-rc3. > > OK. But I think there are issues with 2.6.18 generally. But I can try it > to see if this makes this better. If you're uncomfortable with -rcX, you can try libata-tj-stable patch. It contains most of new stuff. http://home-tj.org/files/libata-tj-stable/libata-tj-2.6.17.4-20060710.tar.bz2 >>> I bet the driver does the right thing. The trick is knowing what that is >>> supposed to be. And how to use the various commands on files in /sys at >>> the correct time and in the correct order. >> Really, it's not that complicated. > > Once you know what it is you need to do. I tried hard to make things just work. If you find things unnecessarily complicated, please let me know. Good luck. -- tejun