From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: straighten out the IDE layer locking and add hotplug
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:40:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408171640.31986.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040817140533.GB2019@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
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 :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-17 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-15 15:13 Alan Cox
2004-08-16 17:23 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-16 17:36 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-16 22:29 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-16 21:43 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 13:12 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 14:05 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 14:30 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 15:05 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 15:33 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 14:40 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2004-08-17 14:12 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-17 14:18 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-17 14:35 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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