On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:13 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

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I could make the media-bay look like a controller hotplug if it was
going to make things easier...

I'm not sure it will. It may do nowdays, but the older IDE code
historically was fairly broken for both cases except in 2.4. Also faking
it as controller hotplug is the wrong path for libata which does real
drive hot plug.

Yeah, that was my line of thinking initially, also the fact that it has
the nice side effect of keeping the minor number stable.

Ben.