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

Matthew Garrett
2005-12-08T13:26:57Z

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.

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