Hi! > I would suggest some sysfs file for doing this. The best approach would
Actually it is usefull for other devices, too... for power saving. Some people call it "runtime power managment". > sysfs attribute for this and we integrate a proper solution once the > request type stuff is finalized. As the user api, I would suggest just > echoing a timeout in seconds to the file. So: > > # echo 5 > /sys/block/hda/device/freeze > > would park the head, freeze queue, and unfreeze in 5 seconds. Please make it "echo 1 > frozen", then userspace can do "echo 0 > frozen" after five seconds. -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/