Re: RFC: ACPI/scsi/libata integration and hotswap

Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-08T13:33:08Z

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:26:57PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:15:42AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > NACK. ACPI-specific hacks do not have any business at all in the scsi layer.
>
> Ok. What's the right layer to do this? The current ACPI/anything else
> glue depends on specific knowledge about the bus concerned, and needs
> callbacks registered before devices are added to that bus. Doing it in
> the sata layer would have the potential for unhappiness on mixed
> sata/scsi machines.

Don't do it at all. We don't need to fuck up every layer and driver for
intels braindamage.