Re: hard disk power down

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Am Dienstag, den 22.05.2007, 09:04 +0100 schrieb Richard Hughes:
> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 15:55 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > Cheers for doing that - that's useful to know. David, this makes some of
> > > the discussion with DannyK moot - what do you think about hdd powerdown
> > > from the desktop?
> > 
> > Hmm, I think this just needs to happen automagically when g-p-m calls
> > SetPowerSave() on HAL
> 
> Okay, sure, that makes sense.
> 
> > http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/hal-spec/hal-spec.html#interface-device-systempower
> > 
> > e.g. you'd have the option in g-p-m for both the "On AC" and "On
> > battery" tabs saying
> > 
> >  [x] When idle, power down hard disks and peripherals
> > that defaults to [x] for "On battery" and [ ] for "On AC". So as far as
> > I'm concerned the magic just happens in pm-powersave (which is what
> > SetPowerSave() on HAL calls). 
> 
> Sure. We've got the pm-utils infrastructure for just that I guess.
> 
> > (I also think it's preferable to avoid using hdparm or sdparm for this;
> > the kernel driver for the hard drive / controller needs to export a
> > power mgmt aware interface that we can easily poke using sysfs.)
> 
> Yes, totally agree - any idea for a CC so we can discuss this with the
> right kernel ppl?

Bugzilla it.

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