ide pmac breakage
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jul 31 19:11:33 EST 2008
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 09:49 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > There seems to be some confusion between warm-plugging of IDE devices
> > and hot-plugging of IDE devices.
> >
> > > not a single piece of HW to exercise those code path ? I don't ask you
> > > to get a powermac with a media-bay, but ide_cs seems to be a pretty
> > > important one that's part of what the ide maintainer should take care
> > > of... And I suspect it's going to exercise the same code path as
> > > mediabay.
>
> That confuses people sometimes - ide_cs is a controller hotplug not a
> device hotplug ...
I could make the media-bay look like a controller hotplug if it was
going to make things easier...
Cheers,
Ben.
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