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

[Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:41:52PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Do you even know if this special case is applicable outside of Dell ICH5 
> boxes?  And I thought your previous messages were referring to ICH6?

Every laptop I have access to, whether it's SATA or PATA, fires an ACPI 
notification when a drive is removed from a bay. The ICH5 case is 
probably somewhat special-cased, but when we move over to driving PATA 
with libata it's going to be a lot more useful. If ICH6 can be managed 
without resorting to ACPI, it's less necessary in the short term, but I 
think PATA support is going to require it in the end anyway (especially 
since we probably want to call the _GTM and _STM methods on PATA 
devices)

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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