Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: >> I don't think the interface you're suggesting is a good one. Do you? > > I think if it's applicable to SCSI at all it is fine. If it is not, then > I think we need to make do with the interface we are given. I do not think > we should hold up a feature for libata sysfs integration. Well, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here and leave the decision to James and Jeff. >>> I can assert that I think ALPM is a good idea, >>> because I've never had a report of it causing problems. Windows has >>> been using this feature for a very long time - and you have to admit that >>> they have a pretty large market share. Nobody is complaining about ALPM >>> increasing device malfunction, so unless you have proof it seems insane >>> to nak due to this. >> Is ALPM enabled by default? How do they deal with the performance >> degradation? > > I believe so, but I'm obviously not privvy to their implementation details. It would be *really* great if we can find more about how they do it. How and when it's enabled and on which systems. Is it possible to find this out? -- tejun - 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