On Sun, Aug 27 2006, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > This patch fixes a problem with computers that have HPA on their hard > > drive and not being able to come out of resume from RAM or disk. I've > > tested this patch on 2.6.17.x and 2.6.18-rc4 and it works great on both > > of these. This patch also fixes the bug #6840. This is my first patch to > > the kernel and I was told to e-mail the above people to get my patch > > into the kernel. > > Congratulations for a first patch. > > > If I made a mistake please be gentle and correct me ;) > > We'll need signed-off-by: line next time. > > Stefan, can we get this some testing? Or anyone else with thinkpad > with host-protected area still enabled? It has design issues, at someone else already noticed. hpa restore needs to be a driver private step, included in the resume state machine. The current patch is a gross layering violation. But thanks to Lee for taking a stab at this, I hope he'll continue and get it polished :-) -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
