Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751333AbWHJMTk (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:19:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751382AbWHJMTk (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:19:40 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([62.242.22.158]:15114 "EHLO kernel.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751333AbWHJMTj (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:19:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:20:57 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Alan Cox Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel Message-ID: <20060810122056.GP11829@suse.de> References: <1155144599.5729.226.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1155213464.22922.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1155213464.22922.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1032 Lines: 25 On Thu, Aug 10 2006, Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Iau, 2006-08-10 am 08:24 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen: > > Alan Cox writes: > > > - No support for host-protected-area yet > > > > Even the support in the old one for that wasn't complete. It didn't > > redo the HPA disabling on resume-from-ram, which made parts of the > > disk not accessible anymore after wakeup. So at least on laptops it > > always had to be disabled anyways. > > drivers/ide does not support power management yet. Never has. Some > people are brave and use it as it is rather than fix it. You make it sound much worse than it is. Apart for HPA, I'm not aware of any setups that require extra treatment. And the amount of reported bugs against it are pretty close to zero :-) -- Jens Axboe - 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/