From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Status of Hotplug polling patches? Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:38:35 -0500 Message-ID: <45CEABDB.1010004@gmail.com> References: <45CE7F8D.60507@overt.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.230]:15595 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752744AbXBKFi6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:38:58 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so1247094nze for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:38:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <45CE7F8D.60507@overt.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Philip Langdale Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Philip Langdale wrote: > Hi TeJun, > > I have a machine that I've been using 2.6.19 and your hotplug > polling patches on with great success and I just upgraded it > to 2.6.20 and it appears that getting those patches working > again will be non-trivial. As far as I can see, these patches > are not in Jeff's tree or even yours. Have they been discarded, > or am I looking in the wrong place? I certainly don't see > equivalent functionality in the current kernel. > > The warmplug sysfs-foo isn't particularly inconvenient as I > need to explicitly unmount filesystems anyway, but it would > be nice to see hotplug working again. > > (The machine is using an nvidia mcp55) To turn it on and off libata needs per-dev sysfs interface which it currently doesn't have. This is on to-do list as PMP support needs it too. -- tejun