Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5 IDE cleanup 11

From: Martin Dalecki (dalecki@evision-ventures.com)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 13:44:57 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
>>>So you didnt test or consider the upcoming things like hotplug.
>>>
>>I did plugging and unplugging a CardBus IDE contoller in and out on
>>a hot system.
>>
>
> IDE hotplug is device level (hence you want ->present)
>
>
>>using the struct device_driver infrastructure and not by reduplicating
>>it's fuctionality inside ide.c. Agreed? Before one could even thing
>>
>
> Not agreed - its a layer lower I'm talking about

Then please tell me why the sudden /dev/hdc -> /dev/hde name
change occured?

I state - *neither* level get's handled properly now.

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