Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:49:14 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] laptop mode |
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Hi!
> > Right now laptopmode/aam is just a suspect. There are still 1-2 other > > small patches against IDE which could be the reason. We've dropped > > laptopmode/aam for the time being to see if the folks seeing repeatable > > corruption suddenly start behaving again. > > aam patch is far more risky, it's a far more likely suspect. That patch > never reall did go out of beta. Dropping laptop-mode and aam at the same > time is bad engineering practice :). > > laptop-mode cannot cause corruption that cannot show otherwise.
Well, if fireballs have data-corrupting that happens just after spinup (for example), I can see how laptop-mode affects that. W/o laptop-mode, disk is spinning all the time so sleep bugs can not manifest themselves. You add laptop-mode, and... Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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