From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934284AbXEGPYM (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 11:24:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934364AbXEGPYH (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 11:24:07 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:14848 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934283AbXEGPYF (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 11:24:05 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.14,501,1170662400"; d="scan'208";a="242932576" Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 08:20:56 -0700 From: Kristen Carlson Accardi To: Tejun Heo Cc: jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] Asynchronous Notification for ATAPI devices (v2) - resend Message-Id: <20070507082056.dd0b2f9e.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <463DAAC6.3060300@gmail.com> References: <20070504111222.c2e373cf.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> <463DAAC6.3060300@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.10 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 06 May 2007 12:15:34 +0200 Tejun Heo 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.