Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:44:25 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [git patches] libata hibernation fixes |
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Tejun Heo wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> This adds code at a late stage (heading towards -rc4), but does >> eliminate a particular spin-up overcycling behavior associated with >> hibernation. >> >> Rafael's extended description below... Separated to make it easier to >> pull-or-not, separate from the other libata fixes. There shouldn't be >> any merge trouble between the two. >> >> SATA: Blacklist systems that spin off disks during ACPI power off > > Jeff, I think this should be merged into 2.6.29 unless Linus still > objects. Linus, as discussed in this thread, this is workaround for a > hardware / firmware problem and vanilla windows also suffers the > problem, so as ugly as it is, we need this to prevent double spin down > on the machine.
Oh, I forgot to reply to this... libata-2.6.git#hibern_regress no longer applies cleanly.
I'll try poking at it on Monday and get it cleaned up, as it is IMO a bug fix and still should go in.
Jeff
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