On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Aaron Lu wrote: > > What I'd really like is a way to do the status polling without having > > it reset the idle timer. > > I like this, I'll try to see if this can be done. > > If we idle the device immediately, we would suspend/resume the ODD every > 2 seconds, which may not be a good idea. It may be okay. This depends on how long it takes to suspend and resume the drive and its parents. If it takes no more than a few hundred ms then there shouldn't be any problem. Especially if the polling interval is increased to something like 5 seconds. Alan Stern -- 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
