Hi,

On Friday 22 June 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > I think a /sys/ "dma" attribute (pick a name) might be most appropriate,
> > > or we just just implement HDIO_[GS]ET_DMA as a simpler/lazier mechanism.
> > 
> > The problem is that libata lacks any locking needed for having this
> > (and other useful) settings tunable on per device basis.
> 
> Actually libata does have the paths for it and uses them when drives are
> hotplugged. Tejun posted an explanation of how to implement it a while
> ago when I proposed a totally bogus implementation - it has to be done
> via the EH code.

I must have missed the original discussion.

> So we'd add user mode masks to each device and the sysfs nodes would
> update that mask and trigger the EH processing to halt activity, retune
> the disks and continue

Sounds good.

Thanks,
Bart
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