Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:15:27 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ata: ahci: power off unused ports |
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Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > Here you can see that it would be very easy for another driver > to just add code to set the NO_HOTPLUG flag and then this code > will work for them as well, since we power off the phy using > DET which is specified by SATA.
> here's that code:
Agreed. The main discussion in this sub-thread is more about user interface. The user interface in this case, a module option, is specific to AHCI.
Surely you can see how it is a bit silly to force each driver writer to create the same user interface in each driver, to support a generic concept.
Jeff
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