From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: How to handle hotplug in case that host controller does not support hotplug via interrupt Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:59:29 +0900 Message-ID: <4A9B74D1.9070604@gmail.com> References: <516692.96886.qm@web84007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f188.google.com ([209.85.211.188]:47704 "EHLO mail-yw0-f188.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754527AbZHaG7g (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:59:36 -0400 Received: by ywh26 with SMTP id 26so5714914ywh.5 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:59:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <516692.96886.qm@web84007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jian Peng Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jian Peng wrote: > Hi, Tejun, > > In 2.6.30 and later, If I want to support hotplug, but host controller > does not support hotplug via interrupt. The best way is to patch your > hotplug polling patchset. > I did not see this patch merged in mainline. Is there other new way to > handle this type of hotplug now? Hmmm... Unfortunately, no. Now that most modern controllers support proper hotplug the pressure for hotplug-by-polling is much lower, so it kind of got dropped. Thanks. -- tejun