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

Matthew Garrett
2005-12-09T11:55:25Z

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:46:42PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09 2005, Erik Slagter wrote:
> > I case this (still) isn't clear, I am addressing the attitude of "It's
> > ACPI so it's not going to be used, period".
>
> The problem seems to be that you are misunderstanding the 'attitude',
> which was mainly based on the initial patch sent out which stuffs acpi
> directly in everywhere. That seems to be a good trigger for curt/direct
> replies.

I was just following the example set by the ide acpi suspend/resume
patch, which people didn't seem to object to nearly as much. I guess
IDE's such a hack anyway that people aren't as worried :) I'll try
produce a patch that just inserts platform-independent code into scsi
around the start of next week.

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