On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:10:08PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > power off unused ports > > If the port isn't either a drive bay or an external SATA port, do not > keep the phy powered on if the port is unoccupied. This saves .75 watts > on most laptops. A module parameter can be used to override this > behavior and allow the phy's to be powered up regardless of whether it > has externally accessible SATA ports. > > Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@xxxxxxxxx> Hi, I'm wondering what's the status of this patch? if this has hit a subsystem tree yet? 0.75 watts power savings sounds really cool, but it doesn't seem to be in Linus's mainline yet. Has it hit a subsystem tree yet, or is there some issue that still needs to be resolved before it can go it? Thanks, regards, - Ted -- 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
