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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ata: ahci: power off unused ports
On Fri, 9 May 2008 01:14:58 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:35:55PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 May 2008 00:37:13 +0100
> > Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > > Just out of interest, is this set on laptop bays? (Are any of those even
> > > native SATA yet?)
> >
> > I haven't seen any yet that are. Most of them are PATA. I expect
> > that will change in the future.
>
> Yeah. My vague concern would be that on laptops, we can probably power
> down the port even if it's declared as being hotplug capable - we'll
> probably get an out of band signal from ACPI anyway. Not an issue at the
> moment, but possibly something we'll hit in future.
>

well - when drive bays on laptops are able to be controlled by
AHCI, they may not actually use _EJ0 or send notifications anymore,
since ACPI will not longer be necessary for hotplugging. We'll have
to see what happens.


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