Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc4-git] SCSI newstyle hotplug/coldplug support

From: David Brownell
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 12:14:20 EST


On Wednesday 21 March 2007 4:01 am, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> David Brownell wrote:
> > This teaches scsi devices how to support "new style" hotplug/coldplug:
> > using a modalias sysfs attribute for coldplug, and MODALIAS environment
> > variable for hotplug.
>
> How this is different from http://marc.info/?t=115204542200002&r=1&w=2 and
> earlier attempts to do the same?

Not very; I didn't know about previous work.
Why hasn't such support been merged yet?

- Dave
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