From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268268AbUHQOmA (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:42:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268267AbUHQOl7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:41:59 -0400 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:16004 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268257AbUHQOlz (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:41:55 -0400 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: PATCH: straighten out the IDE layer locking and add hotplug Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:40:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org References: <20040815151346.GA13761@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <200408171512.26568.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20040817140533.GB2019@devserv.devel.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040817140533.GB2019@devserv.devel.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408171640.31986.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 :)