Re: [git patches] libata hibernation fixes

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sun Jan 11 2009 - 00:44:51 EST


Tejun Heo wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
This adds code at a late stage (heading towards -rc4), but does
eliminate a particular spin-up overcycling behavior associated with
hibernation.

Rafael's extended description below... Separated to make it easier to
pull-or-not, separate from the other libata fixes. There shouldn't be
any merge trouble between the two.

SATA: Blacklist systems that spin off disks during ACPI power off

Jeff, I think this should be merged into 2.6.29 unless Linus still
objects. Linus, as discussed in this thread, this is workaround for a
hardware / firmware problem and vanilla windows also suffers the
problem, so as ugly as it is, we need this to prevent double spin down
on the machine.

Oh, I forgot to reply to this... libata-2.6.git#hibern_regress no longer applies cleanly.

I'll try poking at it on Monday and get it cleaned up, as it is IMO a bug fix and still should go in.

Jeff



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