Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5 IDE cleanup 11

Martin Dalecki
2002-02-21T18:46:05Z

Alan Cox wrote:
>>>So you didnt test or consider the upcoming things like hotplug.
>>>
>>I did plugging and unplugging a CardBus IDE contoller in and out on
>>a hot system.
>>
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> IDE hotplug is device level (hence you want ->present)
>
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>>using the struct device_driver infrastructure and not by reduplicating
>>it's fuctionality inside ide.c. Agreed? Before one could even thing
>>
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> Not agreed - its a layer lower I'm talking about

Then please tell me why the sudden /dev/hdc -> /dev/hde name
change occured?

I state - *neither* level get's handled properly now.