On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:32:22PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:

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I don't think it would be wise to include the patch for -stable tho.
It's not a regression fix and has some possibility of introducing
regressions, so....

Not a regression fix?  Excuse me?
SATA hotplug always used to work fine,
and is more or less essential to reboot-free operations.

There are two separate patches.  One is a fix which got pushed to
Linus by Jeff early yesterday.  The other changes behavior which has
been like that since the beginning of EH.  The former is marked
properly w/ -stable.  The latter shouldn't be in -stable.

Thanks.

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tejun