Revision d9a047aeffcef5755952d18f2901d8777d84019d authored by Doug Ledford on 09 July 2015, 14:21:08 UTC, committed by Doug Ledford on 14 July 2015, 17:20:15 UTC
There is little chance our memory allocation will fail, so we can
combine initializing the work structs with allocating them instead of
looping through all of them once to allocate and again to initialize.
Then when we need to actually find out if our device is up or in the
process of going down, have all of our work structs batched up, take the
spin_lock once and only once, and do all of the batch under the one
spin_lock invocation instead of incurring all of the locked memory cycles
we would otherwise incur to take/release the spin_lock over and over
again.

Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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warm-plug-howto.txt

IDE warm-plug HOWTO
===================

To warm-plug devices on a port 'idex':

# echo -n "1" > /sys/class/ide_port/idex/delete_devices

unplug old device(s) and plug new device(s)

# echo -n "1" > /sys/class/ide_port/idex/scan

done

NOTE: please make sure that partitions are unmounted and that there are
no other active references to devices before doing "delete_devices" step,
also do not attempt "scan" step on devices currently in use -- otherwise
results may be unpredictable and lead to data loss if you're unlucky
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