On Fri, Aug 03 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
* Kristen: ALPM patches. We definitely want them, as they save a ton of
power.
The problem with ALPM, as I see it, is that it is way too aggressive. It
really needs to be combined with a timer to be useful, it's really a
huge shame that it doesn't come
Jeff,
This patch (below) is needed by WD drives that powerup-in-standby.
Cheers
Mark
Original Message
Subject: + libata-adjust-libata-to-ignore-errors-after.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:03:29 -0700
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Mark Lord wrote:
Jeff,
This patch (below) is needed by WD drives that powerup-in-standby.
drivers/ata/libata-core.c~libata-adjust-libata-to-ignore-errors-after
drivers/ata/libata-core.c
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c~libata-adjust-libata-to-ignore-errors-after
+++
Alan Cox wrote:
* Alan: IORDY handling -- upstream whenever Alan is happy
I'm happy with it from testing. Just a little worried about it going
upstream mid -rc as it could have a weird side effect somewhere. I've
verified an original pre ATA IDE drive with it too now 8)
* Alan: ACPI
Alan Cox wrote:
* Albert: irq_on/off. Really need to give this some thought. Not sure
I like where this model is going. Polling and twiddling irq on/off
should be kept to a minimum, because it's sorta an admission that the
host state machine has broken down, and we need to bandaid. Its
This is a quick guide to current libata work that is queued or in
progress in some way, shape or form.
First, a guide to the branches currently in use in
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git
ALL
Everything that is exported for testing (and akpm's -mm tree).
