From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 8 0:15:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (fw-rl0.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1BC37B419 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 00:15:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g288FWD56395; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 09:15:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <200203080815.g288FWD56395@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Request for testers of new ATA driver patches In-Reply-To: <20020308.010633.74747065.rklosh@rkl.org> To: "Ryan K. Losh" Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 09:15:32 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: sos@freebsd.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Ryan K. Losh wrote: > I assume the patched IDE subsystem behaves in the following way: > > The IDE controllers (aka ata0, ata1, etc) are enumerated and > initialized at boot time. > > The IDE devices are probed and initialized at boot time. > > atacontrol is able to make changes to the list of DEVICES after > hard disk/CDROM/Tape drive/etc is physically added or removed. > > atacontrol is not able to re-scan the (PCI or whatever) bus to > detect CONTROLLER additions/removals > > Is my understanding of the patch correct, or does it have the ability > to "play nicely" with my hardware? The ATA driver allows hotswap of ATA/ATAPI devices, what you are asking for is that the kernel also can do PCI hotswap, which we do not have support for yet, I have it on my wanted features list. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message