On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > So you really want an ata_make_sure_bus_is_awake_and_working() called at that > > location. ata_busy_sleep()'s purpose is to bring a PATA-like bus to the > > bus-idle state. So, when working on suspend/resume, the software needs to > > have points at which the bus state is controlled/queried/asserted. > > As you can see from my questions, I haven't a clue around here. So for > now I'll just have to keep that ata_busy_sleep with the patches I apply > to my kernel, until someone with a clue makes it redundant. And it is > now there in the LKML archives for those who find it useful. I'm glad to report that my ata_busy_sleep is already unnecessary in 2.6.17-rc2-mm1 (and probably in at least -rc1-mm3 before it): unlike in 2.6.17-rc3, T43p resumes reliably from RAM with unpatched libata-core.c. Something has gone seriously right! Thanks... Hugh - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
