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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ata: ahci: power off unused ports
Alan Cox wrote:
>> The key requirement is per-port control. Ideally via hdparm or another
>> userspace tool, but kernel command line (module options) or sysfs would
>> be just fine too. And agreed, the minimal you need is simply 1/0 for
>> the port's policy.
>
> We don't need it per port Jeff, you are being quite silly here. Right now
> its permanently foo=0 for all ports and nobody has suffered anything too
> horrible so being able to turn it off for all ports is clearly quite
> sufficient for the neat future.

Er, huh? foo=0 means hotplug continues to work on the unused ports.
Nobody has suffered because we default to enabling all the goodies.

Jeff




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