Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Advanced TCA SCSI Disk Hotswap

From: Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 18:22:58 EST


On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:00:23PM -0400, Scott Murray wrote:
>
> I've not implemented it yet, but I'm pretty sure I can detect surprise
> extractions in my cPCI driver. The only thing holding me back at the
> moment is that there's no clear way to report this status change via
> pcihpfs without doing something a bit funky like reporting "-1" in the
> "adapter" node.

Why would you need to report anything other than if the card is present
or not? What would a "supprise" removal cause you to do differently?
Hm, well I guess we should be extra careful in trying to shut down any
driver bound to that card...

thanks,

greg k-h
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