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SubjectRe: RFC: ACPI/scsi/libata integration and hotswap
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On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 13:31 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> > It works just fine on laptops, with Jens' suspend/resume patch.
>
> I have seen a few other people report that SATA suspend/resume
> works when using Jens's patch. However, this is done without
> the benefit of what the additional ACPI methods provide thru
> _GTF and writing those taskfiles, such as:
> - enabling write cache
> - enabling device power management
> - freezing the security password
>
> so even when it "works," those people may be missing some
> performance benefits or power savings or security.
>
> In any case, I'm glad to see some discussion of this.

IMHO available infrastructure (and hardware abstraction!) should be used
instead of being stubborn and pretend we know everything about any
hardware.

Of course this all to a certain degree (== as long as no DRM is
involved).
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