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Subject: Re: [rfc] "laptop mode"
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
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Le mer 05/06/2002 ? 01:43, Andrew Morton a ?crit :

> Also, it has been suggested that the feature become more fully-fleshed,
> to support desktops with one disk spun down, etc.  It's not really
> rocket science to do that - the `struct backing_dev_info' gives
> a specific communication channel between the high-level VFS code and
> the request queue.  But that would require significantly more surgery
> against the writeback code, so I'm fishing for requirements here.  If
> the current (simple) patch is sufficient then, well, it is sufficient.

Have per-disk laptop-mode, so that some user-mode proggy (e.g. hotplug)
could decide what to do.




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