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On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:59:46PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> that's a temporary shortcoming; even with these power savings you can 
> do hotplug as long as you're willing to poll for it at a reasonable 
> interval and are willing to wait the time between polls for a hotplug 
> to take effect..

On laptops, I suspect that we'll probably get an ACPI interrupt even if 
the AHCI hotplug pathway can't manage.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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