Re: [patch 0/7] Asynchronous Notification for ATAPI devices (v2) - resend

[Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>]

On Sun, 06 May 2007 12:15:34 +0200
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:

> Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> > This patch series implements Asynchronous Notification (AN) for SATA
> > ATAPI devices as defined in SATA 2.5 and AHCI 1.1 and higher.  Drives
> > which support this feature will send a notification when new media is
> > inserted and removed, preventing the need for user space to poll for
> > new media.  This support is exposed to user space via a flag that will
> > be set in /sys/block/sr*/capability_flags.  If the flag is set, user
> > space can disable polling for the new media, and the genhd driver will
> > send a KOBJ_CHANGE event with the envp set to MEDIA_CHANGE_EVENT=1.
> > 
> > Note that this patch only implements support for directly attached
> > drives - AN with drives attached to a port multiplier requires 
> > additional changes.
> 
> No objection from me.  BTW, you're not setting ATA_FLAG_AN anywhere in
> the patch series, will that be a separate patch?
> 
> -- 
> tejun
> 

Yes - unfortunately I realized I'd forgotten to add that file to my
quilt patch about 5 minutes after I sent it :).  I thought if there were
no other revisions to this patch, I'd just send a separate one, otherwise
I'd incorporate it into the next version.