Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:57:38 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: RFC: ACPI/scsi/libata integration and hotswap |
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Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:41:52PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >>Do you even know if this special case is applicable outside of Dell ICH5 >>boxes? And I thought your previous messages were referring to ICH6? > > > Every laptop I have access to, whether it's SATA or PATA, fires an ACPI > notification when a drive is removed from a bay. The ICH5 case is > probably somewhat special-cased, but when we move over to driving PATA > with libata it's going to be a lot more useful. If ICH6 can be managed > without resorting to ACPI, it's less necessary in the short term, but I > think PATA support is going to require it in the end anyway (especially > since we probably want to call the _GTM and _STM methods on PATA > devices)
Yes, I do agree with this WRT PATA. Randy Dunlap's ACPI stuff is particularly interesting for this, though I haven't had time to review it in depth.
I'm a bit more reluctant WRT SATA.
Jeff
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