Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: straighten out the IDE layer locking and add hotplug | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:40:31 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 17 August 2004 16:05, Alan Cox wrote: > > I hate HDIO_SCAN_HWIF and HDIO_UNREGISTER_HWIF and I still think we > > should remove them - I waited with such changes for 2.7 but this plan > > failed becuase there won't be 2.7 soon. :/ > > Once you have drive and controller hot plug you don't need them. Until then > some laptop users rely on them. I'd prefer to ignore the issue (its a > privileged code path) until the hotplug is there, or patch it up by > allowing unregister only of SCAN_HWIF added hwifs ?
IMO the correct approach is to remove them as a part of a patch series which results in working hot plug support :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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