ide pmac breakage

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jul 31 19:48:08 EST 2008


On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:13 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I could make the media-bay look like a controller hotplug if it was
> > going to make things easier...
> 
> I'm not sure it will. It may do nowdays, but the older IDE code
> historically was fairly broken for both cases except in 2.4. Also faking
> it as controller hotplug is the wrong path for libata which does real
> drive hot plug.

Yeah, that was my line of thinking initially, also the fact that it has
the nice side effect of keeping the minor number stable.

Ben.





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