On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 02:54 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > >> Anyone else has some opinion about how to handle this? > > > > I'd like to affirm the opinions of Roman and Xavier and take some action on > > this. > > > > Anyone object to my putting storage-fixup in [extra] at least? If no > > objections by W 9/21, I plan to go ahead with that step. If it works out, we > > can talk about follow-up steps like: > > > > 1) moving it to [core] > > 2) integrating it into default rc.d scripts > > > > It's a pretty serious issue for laptop users with affected drives. And the > > drives are pretty popular ones, methinks. > > Also note that, when raising awerness about this issue, the fixup > ussually needs to be run on resume from disk (and I think resume from > ram) too. Not only on boot. > > Isn't all this handled simply by getting laptop-mode to do it? Its possible to allow laptop-mode to control hdparm settings, after all. Besides, this is mainly (exclusively?) a problem for laptop hard discs.
