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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi_set_host_offline (resend)
Date: 29 Mar 2003 08:43:08 -0600
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On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 19:32, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> Well, Linus wants this to work for usb-storage more short-term than
> long-term....

Well, I think Mike's given us everything you need.  We can use the
set_device_offline to alter the remove-single-device path to offline the
device, wait for the returning I/Os to complete or error and then remove
the device.

You can then trigger this from your hotplug scripts.

James