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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ata: ahci: power off unused ports
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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