Jeff Garzik wrote:

Andy Helten wrote:

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Hello,

Can anyone tell me the current status of hotplug support?  The SATA 
web site says only this:

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libata does not support hotplug... yet. 

Is there a plan or design for adding hotplug support?  Can anyone 
point me to any discussions on this matter.  I am new to Linux kernel 
development, but I have searched the archives and found nothing very 
helpful (except for the mention of the echo commands I tried below).  
There could be a simple solution that is evading me, but I've looked 
for two days now without much success.

There's a plan but no code yet.  :)

linux-ide@vger.kernel.org is where this stuff gets discussed (though 
there's nothing on there recently about hotplug).

    Jeff

Can you share the plan with me (pdf, email archive, or web page)?  I've 
been tasked with adding hotplug support for the system I mention in my 
original email.  Soooo, it is really just a matter of whether it will be 
a custom hack job or something more generic that could benefit more people.

Thanks,
Andy