Re: [PATCH] libata: Export AHCI capabilities

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Mon Aug 10 2009 - 09:36:39 EST


On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 07:13:47PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> AHCI exports various capability bits that may be of interest to userspace
> such as whether the BIOS claims a port is hotpluggable or eSATA. Providing
> these via sysfs along with the version of the AHCI spec implemented by
> the host allows userspace to make policy decisions for things like ALPM.

Any feedback on this?

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