On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 19:47 +0200, nodata wrote: > 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. Normally I would agree, but sometimes the best way to get something done is to get the right people in a conference room for an hour of so. It's the highest bandwidth type of communication you can get - plus you can scribble on whiteboards and that sort of thing. I'll see what I can do. Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
