Terry Whatley writes:
> The IO framework and driver stack will be enhanced to provide generic
> support of modern disks' power management capabilities. The new
> features include support of SPC-4/SBC-3 compliant disk power conditions.
> The SATA framework will be enhanced to provide comparable software
> translation between ATA power conditions and SBC-3 power conditions.
Where's the rest of this project? I would expect that, in order to
finish this project, there's some work necessary to make the power
management subsystem consume this data. That doesn't appear to be a
part of this project, though.
Are the folks responsible for supporting autopm and the rest of the
power management subsystem involved with this project?
If not, are they aware of what this project is planning to deliver,
and do they agree that the information will be usable to make power
management decisions?
If so, is there a future project ("autopm disk enhancements") that is
dependent on this one?
Help us to connect the dots from the set of low-level driver
properties described here to the higher-level goal of providing better
disk management.
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