Re: [PATCH 3/6] SATA: Blacklisting of systems that spin off disks during ACPI power off

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Oct 01 2008 - 07:32:37 EST


On Wednesday, 1 of October 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > SATA: Blacklisting of systems that spin off disks during ACPI power off
> >
> > Introduce new libata flags ATA_FLAG_NO_POWEROFF_SPINDOWN and
> > ATA_FLAG_NO_HIBERNATE_SPINDOWN that, if set, will prevent disks from
> > being spun off during system power off and hibernation, respectively
> > (to handle the hibernation case we need the new system state
> > SYSTEM_HIBERNATE_ENTER that can be checked against by libata, in
> > analogy with SYSTEM_POWER_OFF).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
>
> ACK 3-6. I'll push these through libata-dev after the first two
> prerequsite patches are cleared.

OK, thanks.

Best,
Rafael
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