Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030377AbVIVO3S (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:29:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030375AbVIVO3R (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:29:17 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:51929 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030368AbVIVO3Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:29:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:28:55 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Mark Lord Cc: Jens Axboe , Jeff Garzik , Joshua Kwan , Linux Kernel , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA suspend-to-ram patch - merge? Message-ID: <20050922142855.GA29672@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Mark Lord , Jens Axboe , Jeff Garzik , Joshua Kwan , Linux Kernel , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org References: <433104E0.4090308@triplehelix.org> <433221A1.5000600@pobox.com> <20050922061849.GJ7929@suse.de> <4332ABDC.3030106@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4332ABDC.3030106@rtr.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 899 Lines: 18 On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:04:28AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Rather than sitting around for another six months hoping the problem > will go away (it won't), perhaps we should just update/merge Jen's > patch as a sorely needed interim fix. > > This might then prod James et al into looking more at the SCSI side of > things, and some year we might see this get replaced with a better scheme. > > This is a real problem, and an immediate solution is needed last spring. Folks, bitching around on lkml on this won't get you far. Send the patch to linux-scsi again, and explain what's the current stance on the disk synchronize cache and spindown issues. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/