Re: [patch 3/3] Enable Aggressive Link Power management for AHCI controllers.

Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:17:14AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
Laptop bays are designed to deal with hotplugging PATA - I don't think this is too much of an issue :)
The new SATA ones use the SATA hardware hotplug ;-) Just like the pci-e
cards use usb2.0 and pci-e hotplug...

Yes, but they'll also send an ACPI interrupt even if the SATA host controller doesn't - it's part of the spec for bays.

Regardless, having a laptop does not imply having a docking bay.

Jeff



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