Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 05 Jun 2002 03:39:53 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [rfc] "laptop mode" |
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Xavier Bestel wrote: > > Le mer 05/06/2002 à 01:43, Andrew Morton a écrit : > > > Also, it has been suggested that the feature become more fully-fleshed, > > to support desktops with one disk spun down, etc. It's not really > > rocket science to do that - the `struct backing_dev_info' gives > > a specific communication channel between the high-level VFS code and > > the request queue. But that would require significantly more surgery > > against the writeback code, so I'm fishing for requirements here. If > > the current (simple) patch is sufficient then, well, it is sufficient. > > Have per-disk laptop-mode, so that some user-mode proggy (e.g. hotplug) > could decide what to do.
But why?
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