> The key requirement is per-port control. Ideally via hdparm or another > userspace tool, but kernel command line (module options) or sysfs would > be just fine too. And agreed, the minimal you need is simply 1/0 for > the port's policy. We don't need it per port Jeff, you are being quite silly here. Right now its permanently foo=0 for all ports and nobody has suffered anything too horrible so being able to turn it off for all ports is clearly quite sufficient for the neat future. If someone wants it per port they'll send you a patch later. Alan -- 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