Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2000 18:25:45 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Notebook disk spindown |
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Russell King wrote:
> Jamie Lokier writes: > > With laptops, people are willing > > to assume the RAM is reliable -- accidentally pulling the plug out won't > > lose the data. > > But a buggy apm implementation and the battery running down can. > > (and I've seen my Thinkpad 380XD with RH's 2.2.14-5.0 kernel and > RH's apmd run itself dead. Kill apmd and it'll do the right thing > and suspend, then hibernate. And no, I haven't even attempted to > debugg it yet).
Russell,
You know that it would take me 25 minutes or less to fix the code if I had a full native taskfile. This would allow a (void *)(void) to be set in kernel apmd and have all the drive data and callouts.
But that is not doable until 2.5, sorry.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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