On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:46:56AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:17:14AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > >wrote: > >>On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >>>Laptop bays are designed to deal with hotplugging PATA - I don't think > >>>this is too much of an issue :) > >>The new SATA ones use the SATA hardware hotplug ;-) Just like the pci-e > >>cards use usb2.0 and pci-e hotplug... > > > >Yes, but they'll also send an ACPI interrupt even if the SATA host > >controller doesn't - it's part of the spec for bays. > > Regardless, having a laptop does not imply having a docking bay.
Excluding the corner case of an Expresscard SATA controller (where I suspect you'd want different policy), I doubt there are any cases where you have a laptop with hotplug capabilities without it being implemented as an ACPI bay. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
