From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933585AbXEFKPu (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2007 06:15:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933591AbXEFKPu (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2007 06:15:50 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.236]:22221 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933576AbXEFKPs (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2007 06:15:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=DxZ3rgani794mUFHz9Gl7eNjy2jbsleRwSupS5NNW0U6DSz/VFdWYk2P5peKUSn+/Mf+5s8ur/XFDbBRgrsmqVASkRJFTTJPixoZAqOiqqP7SwSTMwYDG9HNzlLEFXI1+6f1AzpI24H62MXEo//CVTn3ZO1qwE185CDOqYA05QY= Message-ID: <463DAAC6.3060300@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 12:15:34 +0200 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kristen Carlson Accardi CC: jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] Asynchronous Notification for ATAPI devices (v2) - resend References: <20070504111222.c2e373cf.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20070504111222.c2e373cf.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > This patch series implements Asynchronous Notification (AN) for SATA > ATAPI devices as defined in SATA 2.5 and AHCI 1.1 and higher. Drives > which support this feature will send a notification when new media is > inserted and removed, preventing the need for user space to poll for > new media. This support is exposed to user space via a flag that will > be set in /sys/block/sr*/capability_flags. If the flag is set, user > space can disable polling for the new media, and the genhd driver will > send a KOBJ_CHANGE event with the envp set to MEDIA_CHANGE_EVENT=1. > > Note that this patch only implements support for directly attached > drives - AN with drives attached to a port multiplier requires > additional changes. No objection from me. BTW, you're not setting ATA_FLAG_AN anywhere in the patch series, will that be a separate patch? -- tejun