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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] SATA ACPI build (applies to 2.6.16-git9)
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:07:13PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:56:07PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:42:52PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > > --- linux-2615-g9.orig/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> > > +++ linux-2615-g9/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
> > > @@ -599,6 +599,11 @@ config SCSI_SATA_INTEL_COMBINED
> > > depends on IDE=y && !BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA && (SCSI_SATA_AHCI || SCSI_ATA_PIIX)
> > > default y
> > >
> > > +config SCSI_SATA_ACPI
> > > + bool
> > > + depends on SCSI_SATA && ACPI
> > > + default y
> > > +
> >
> > Could you add some help text over here? At first glance I got the
> > impression this was a host driver that works through ACPI calls, but by
> > reading the rest of your patches it turns out it is a suspend/resume
> > helper.
>
> Something like this should already be enough:
>
> This option enables support for SATA suspend/resume using ACPI.
>
> If you really need this enabled to be able to use suspend/resume at
> all, you could add a line like:
>
> It's safe to say Y. If you say N, you might get serious disk
> corruption when you suspend your machine.
>...

Why?

This is not a user-visible option...

> Erik

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Adrian

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