On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:30:07PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > Wouldn't it be good enough, if we add a file "idle_since" which > contains the time of the actual disk idle time, and userspace can > schedule a re-examination of that value at the actual end of the idle > time it is looking for? That would require either polling or waking up a userspace application on every disk access. Doing it in-kernel involves only a single timer wakeup for every active/idle transition. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
