Re: [PATCH] ata: ahci: power off unused ports

[Jeff Garzik]

Alan Cox wrote:
> > The key requirement is per-port control.  Ideally via hdparm or another 
> > userspace tool, but kernel command line (module options) or sysfs would 
> > be just fine too.  And agreed, the minimal you need is simply 1/0 for 
> > the port's policy.
>
> We don't need it per port Jeff, you are being quite silly here. Right now
> its permanently foo=0 for all ports and nobody has suffered anything too
> horrible so being able to turn it off for all ports is clearly quite
> sufficient for the neat future.

Er, huh?  foo=0 means hotplug continues to work on the unused ports. 
Nobody has suffered because we default to enabling all the goodies.

	Jeff


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