Re: Flaw in ide_unregister()

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2005-01-10 at 12:39, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Offloading this responsibility onto each and every driver seems rather 
> rather unwise and will result in a lot of code duplication. Are there any 
> circumstances where we need ide_unregister to abort on busy? Even if there 
> are would a flag to indicate what it should do with a busy drive be better?

Currently there are four things in the -ac tree that use this feature

1.	ISA PnP, where we don't support hotplug (and anyway the only maker of
consumer hotpluggable ISA docking stations I know of - IBM - wont
provide docs on them)
2.	ide-cs
3.	delkin (cardbus IDE)
4.	PCI layer

Of those the PCI one is a common shared function so I put the supporting
logic in the IDE PCI helper function, The others need different handling
at the PCMCIA or Cardbus level in order to free up resources and clean
up.

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