On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 09:00 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Shaohua Li wrote: > > Not sure, this is just to call a BIOS routine, but a check should be > > safer. Thanks! > > > > ACPI spec (ver 3.0a, p289) requires IDE power on/off executes ACPI _PSx > > methods. As recently most PATA drivers use libata, this patch adds _PSx > > method support in libata. ACPI spec doesn't mention if SATA requires the > > same _PSx method. > > > > Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> > > > What is the safety factor on this patch? :) Not sure, but it depends on BIOS, I just guess ignoring disabled device might be safe :) > Since we are into 2.6.24-rc, my preference would be to let this get some > testing in -mm, and push it upstream for 2.6.25. Comments? Sure, Thanks, taking either this patch or previous patch is ok to me. Thanks, Shaohua - 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
