From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, petkovbb@gmail.com,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: ide pmac breakage
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:48:08 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217497688.11188.446.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080731101322.18735e64@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:13 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I could make the media-bay look like a controller hotplug if it was
> > going to make things easier...
>
> I'm not sure it will. It may do nowdays, but the older IDE code
> historically was fairly broken for both cases except in 2.4. Also faking
> it as controller hotplug is the wrong path for libata which does real
> drive hot plug.
Yeah, that was my line of thinking initially, also the fact that it has
the nice side effect of keeping the minor number stable.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-28 1:29 ide pmac breakage Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-28 2:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-28 14:31 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-07-29 5:17 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-07-29 5:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-29 11:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-07-29 12:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-29 12:04 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-07-29 14:45 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-07-29 19:26 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-07-29 21:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-30 1:23 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-07-30 6:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-30 19:11 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-07-30 22:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-31 0:48 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-07-31 1:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-31 3:17 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-07-31 8:49 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-31 9:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-31 9:13 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-31 9:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-07-31 4:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-31 10:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-08-01 10:54 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-08-01 22:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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