[ltp] lt_hotswap not needed anymore?

Joerg Platte linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 6 May 2007 10:54:42 +0200


Am Sonntag, 6. Mai 2007 schrieb André Wyrwa:
Hi,

> i'm on a T41p and didn't follow kernel improvements for quite a while.
> So i'm still using lt_hotswap for ultrabay hotswapping.
>
> The following page on ThinkWiki -
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_hotswap_UltraBay_devices#When_using_th
>e_ata_piix_driver - leaves the impression that this is not needed anymore
> with a hotplug enabled piix_ata driver. Is this correct?
>
> If so...the patches there only go up to kernel 2.6.18. Has hotplug
> support been merged into mainline kernel from 2.6.19 or 2.6.20?

You don't need lt_hotswap when using the piix_ata driver. 

regards,
Jörg

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