From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262194AbVANWKs (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:10:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262189AbVANWKr (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:10:47 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:24273 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262197AbVANWJ1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:09:27 -0500 Message-ID: <41E84305.5070202@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:09:09 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Helten CC: linux-kernel , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: SATA hotplug status (sii3114) References: <41E8292A.40302@dot21rts.com> In-Reply-To: <41E8292A.40302@dot21rts.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andy Helten wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me the current status of hotplug support? The SATA web > site says only this: > >> libata does not support hotplug... yet. > > > > Is there a plan or design for adding hotplug support? Can anyone point > me to any discussions on this matter. I am new to Linux kernel > development, but I have searched the archives and found nothing very > helpful (except for the mention of the echo commands I tried below). > There could be a simple solution that is evading me, but I've looked for > two days now without much success. There's a plan but no code yet. :) linux-ide@vger.kernel.org is where this stuff gets discussed (though there's nothing on there recently about hotplug). Jeff