Jeff Garzik wrote: > This adds code at a late stage (heading towards -rc4), but does > eliminate a particular spin-up overcycling behavior associated with > hibernation. > > Rafael's extended description below... Separated to make it easier to > pull-or-not, separate from the other libata fixes. There shouldn't be > any merge trouble between the two. > > SATA: Blacklist systems that spin off disks during ACPI power off Jeff, I think this should be merged into 2.6.29 unless Linus still objects. Linus, as discussed in this thread, this is workaround for a hardware / firmware problem and vanilla windows also suffers the problem, so as ugly as it is, we need this to prevent double spin down on the machine. Thanks and happy new year. -- 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
