Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750754AbWCWMKS (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:10:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751036AbWCWMKS (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:10:18 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:55457 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750754AbWCWMKQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:10:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:06:49 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Nigel Cunningham Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make libata not powerdown drivers on PM_EVENT_FREEZE. Message-Id: <20060323040649.3a6c96f1.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200603232151.47346.ncunningham@cyclades.com> References: <200603232151.47346.ncunningham@cyclades.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 16 Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > At the moment libata doesn't pass pm_message_t down ata_device_suspend. > This causes drives to be powered down when we just want a freeze, > causing unnecessary wear and tear. This patch gets pm_message_t passed > down so that it can be used to determine whether to power down the > drive. Does this explain http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6264 ? This might be 2.6.16.1 material - how irritating is it? - 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/