[ltp] hotswap dvd + battery

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On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 13:01 +0100, Arnd Hannemann -
linux-thinkpad@arndnet.de wrote:
> Stefan Schmidt schrieb:
> 
> >>But there may be another option: Alan Cox is working on PATA support for 
> >>libata. The Development is in the very beginning, but some brave people 
> >>could try it ;-)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >libata have hotswap support?
> >
> >  
> >
> At least hotswap with libata+SATA is supposed to work well, but I've no 
> idea if hotswap for libata+PATA is even planned...
> But as of my understanding, the new architecture of libata was designed 
> to support hotswap from the beginning. Therefore there might be a small 
> chance that it will work for PATA, too.
> 
> I just searched the web and found "Hotplug/Warmplug" for PATA in Alans 
> TODO list, so hotswap support seems to be planned but probably not 
> working yet.
> http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/~alan/IDE/STATUS.txt
> 
> Regards Arnd
> 
> 

I think this is relevant:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/9/26/276

Cheers,
Carlos