On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:48:22PM +0100, Holger Macht wrote:

  1. libata integration into the bay driver

It actually makes sense to tie all PATA/SATA devices to their ACPI 
handles where appropriate - there's already code to do that in 
libata-acpi.c, but it would be nicer if it was integrated in the same 
way that PCI devices are.

  2. The dock station driver has to inform the bay driver that an undock
     event took place, right?

Yeah.

But you still have to deal with mounted filesystems, no matter if it a
cardbus or a cdrom. Wouldn't we need something like 'save removal'
triggered from userspace like you maybe know from 'the other' operating
system?

Yes, there's a need for a mechanism to deal with all of this safely, but 
the same is true of any storage device that can be hotplugged (USB, 
firewire, anything in a hotplug bay...)

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org