Re: [PATCH] libata: remove dead code from libata-acpi.c

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Jun 17 2013 - 14:02:22 EST


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 09:50:20AM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> On 06/15/2013 11:02 AM, Liu Jiang wrote:
> > From: Liu Jiang <liu97@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Commit 30dcf76acc69 "libata: migrate ACPI code over to new bindings"
> > removed ACPI dock notification related code, but there's some dead
> > code left, so clean up it.
>
> I never noticed this, but it looks to be the case...
>
> I'm not sure the dock notification code is removed intentionally or
> mistakenly though, if it is a mistake, then instead of removing the left
> code here, we probably should add the dock notification code back.
>
> But I have no test system or any knowledge about how ata dock works, so
> I may be wrong :-)

Looks like a regression to me. We're probably locking up on some
older laptops which connects optical drives with hotpluggable PATA.
Matthew, can you please fix it?

Thanks.

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tejun
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