Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [rfc] "laptop mode" | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | 05 Jun 2002 12:47:38 +0200 |
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Le mer 05/06/2002 à 12:39, Andrew Morton a écrit : > 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?
e.g. not mess with cdroms, autoalimented disks, some mp3-players seen as usb-storage, whatever.
I just realized your patch was partly ide-specific, perhaps what I said doesn't apply ?
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