Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] IDE driver model update | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 08 Oct 2002 14:05:37 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 13:24, Alexander Viro wrote: > > IDE objects can also outlast the hardware - consider an active mount on > > an ejected pcmcia card. Right now we don't do the right stuff to > > reconnect that on re-insert but one day we may need to. As it is we keep > > the instance around to avoid crashes > > Ouch. That (reconnects) may require interesting things from queue-related > code. What behaviour do you want while card is disconnected? All requests > getting errors / all requests getting blocked / reads failing, writes blocking?
Right now it errors further requests. USB scsi does the whole reconnect thing and seems to get it right, I need to look into this
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