Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:07:01 -0400 | From | "Greg Freemyer" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ata: ahci: power off unused ports |
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On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: >> >> For the power-off of unused ports, the current patch still sounds >> extremely vendor-specific (Intel). >> >> Does it actually work (demonstrate, please) on any other hardware ? > > Ding... correct. We need something per-port that's not Intel specific. > > Jeff
But, isn't Alan correct that the new logic is useful to some and with a simple boot option is can be used to enable / disable it.
So if it is defaulted it to disabled, and the end user is allowed to have a boot option to enable it, you get a reasonable first step for now.
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