[ltp] Hotswap driver (supports DMA, etc etc)

[Jim Duchek]

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Hi.  I got bored last night (freakin' business trips) and wrote an ACPI
driver to handle hotswapping of IDE drives and batteries (yeah, I know
batteries don't need much support, but was annoying to not be able to see m=
y
ultrabay battery if I didn't boot with it in).

It works well on my T22, but I'd like some adventurous souls to give it a g=
o
as well and see if it's allright.  It should work on just about anything,
not just Thinkpads, but I'm not sure.  The ACPI namespace stuff needs to be
hardcoded in, I took the secondary master namespaces from the ibm-acpi
module and added the one I saw on my home (desktop) machine...  so it ought
to at least work for all thinkpads.  I'm sure other systems would need
additions, though.

I don't want to attach a tarball to this list (even though it's only a
little over 10k) and my webspace is down right now...  Be happy to email it
to anyone in the time being, I'd certainly like to see it tested a bit.

Thanks,
Jim

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Hi.  I got bored last night (freakin' business trips) and wrote an ACP=
I driver to
handle hotswapping of IDE drives and batteries (yeah, I know batteries
don't need much support, but was annoying to not be able to see my
ultrabay battery if I didn't boot with it in).
<br><br>It works well on my T22, but I'd like some adventurous souls
to give it a go as well and see if it's allright.&nbsp; It should work on
just about anything, not just Thinkpads, but I'm not sure.&nbsp; The ACPI n=
amespace stuff needs to be hardcoded in, I took the secondary master namesp=
aces from the ibm-acpi module and added the one I saw on my home (desktop) =
machine...&nbsp; so it ought to at least work for all thinkpads.&nbsp; I'm =
sure other systems would need additions, though.
<br><br>I
don't want to attach a tarball to this list (even though it's only a
little over 10k) and my webspace is down right now...&nbsp;
Be happy to email it to anyone in the time being, I'd certainly like to see=
 it tested a bit.<br><br>Thanks,<br><span class=3D"sg">Jim</span>

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