Re: [PATCH 2.6.15.4 rel.2 1/1] libata: add hotswap to sata_svw

[Martin Devera <devik@cdi.cz>]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 23:22 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 16:09 +0100, Martin Devera wrote:
> > > From: Martin Devera <devik@cdi.cz>
> > >
> > > Add hotswap capability to Serverworks/BroadCom SATA controlers. The
> > > controler has SIM register and it selects which bits in SATA_ERROR
> > > register fires interrupt.
> > > The solution hooks on COMWAKE (plug), PHYRDY change and 10B8B decode 
> > > error (unplug) and calls into Lukasz's hotswap framework.
> > > The code got one day testing on dual core Athlon64 H8SSL Supermicro 
> > > MoBo with HT-1000 SATA, SMP kernel and two CaviarRE SATA HDDs in
> > > hotswap bays.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Martin Devera <devik@cdi.cz>
> > What became of this?
>
> I might be to blame for not testing it... The Xserve I had on my desk
> was too noisy for most of my co-workers so I kept delaying and forgot
> about it.... 
>
> Also the Xserve I have only has one disk, which makes hotplug testing a
> bit harder :-)

Unfortunately my box with ht1000 is already deployed. Another similar one should
arrive soon so that I'll retest it.
Just now I've VIA based mobo here - and hotswap is NOT working with it ..

Martin
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