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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC]add ACPI hooks for IDE suspend/resume
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On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:43:23PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

> If someone swapped the drive while runtime, it would not be true, too,
> I guess. But that would be stupid thing to do. Swapping drive during
> suspend-to-RAM would be similary stupid. During suspend-to-disk, it
> might theoretically work, but we have big warnings saying "don't do
> that".

ACPI systems tend to fire ACPI notifications when a drive is ejected 
(and sometimes when you're preparing to eject them, depending on the 
system), which ought to make hotswap possible. I'm looking at 
integrating support for that into libata right now.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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