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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:44:57 +0100
From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5 IDE cleanup 11
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Alan Cox wrote:
>>>So you didnt test or consider the upcoming things like hotplug. 
>>>
>>I did plugging and unplugging a CardBus IDE contoller in and out on
>>a hot system.
>>
> 
> IDE hotplug is device level (hence you want ->present)
> 
> 
>>using the struct device_driver infrastructure and not by reduplicating 
>>it's fuctionality inside ide.c. Agreed? Before one could even thing
>>
> 
> Not agreed - its a layer lower I'm talking about

Then please tell me why the sudden /dev/hdc -> /dev/hde name
change occured?

I state - *neither* level get's handled properly now.

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