From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Ramsay Subject: libata and hotplug status Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:55:30 -0600 Message-ID: <4789af9e050628135547fa5e14@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Jim Ramsay Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.204]:48024 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261634AbVF1U4A convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:56:00 -0400 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i11so395491nzi for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:55:56 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Linux-ide I read at http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html that "libata does not support hotplug... yet", implying that it eventually would. I am very interested in the current state and progress of SATA hotplug support for libata-based drivers (specifically the 'sata_promise' driver for the Promise TX4 card). Has there been any preliminary work or discussion on this feature? How would it best be implemented? How much of a pain would it be to do? Are there any half-baked patches out there I can take a peek at or help with? Who can I prod to bump this up on the priority list for libata? What should I prod with? -- Jim Ramsay "Me fail English? That's unpossible!"