Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932473AbWARMY3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:24:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932449AbWARMY3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:24:29 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:41378 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932324AbWARMY2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:24:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:24:09 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Alan Cox Cc: Jens Axboe , Erik Mouw , "Randy.Dunlap" , ide , lkml , akpm , jgarzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] SATA ACPI build (applies to 2.6.16-git9) Message-ID: <20060118122409.GA17046@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060113224252.38d8890f.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20060116115607.GA18307@harddisk-recovery.nl> <20060116140713.GB18307@harddisk-recovery.com> <20060116224626.GS3945@suse.de> <1137452436.15553.93.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1137452436.15553.93.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1301 Lines: 32 Hi! > > > If you really need this enabled to be able to use suspend/resume at > > > all, you could add a line like: > > > > > > It's safe to say Y. If you say N, you might get serious disk > > > corruption when you suspend your machine. > > > > That's simply not true. If you say N (if you could), you could risk > > having a non-responsive disk after resume. However, it would have been > > synced a suspend time so you wont corrupt anything. > > If you do not execute the ACPI taskfiles for the device and you are > doing an ACPI suspend you are in completely undefined space. Whether it > eats your disk or not is a question of probabilities only. Yes its > unlikely but you are in undefined space so "won't corrupt anything" > indicates an inappropriate level of certainty. Okay, but being in undefined state still does not warrant "you might get serious disk corruption when you suspend your machine." . What about: It's safe to say Y. If you say N, you may run into problems after you suspend your machine. Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp! - 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/