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From: "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Alexander Viro" <viro@math.psu.edu>,
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Subject: Re: [patch] IDE driver model update
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:05:35 +0200
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>Ouch.  That (reconnects) may require interesting things from queue-related
>code.  What behaviour do you want while card is disconnected?  All requests
>getting errors / all requests getting blocked / reads failing, writes
>blocking?

Same problem I beleive with the hotswap ATAPI bay I have on some
machines, and probably very similar at the queue level to the
problem of USB & FireWire drives.


Ben.


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