On 8/27/18 11:48 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: >>> Thankfully, Jens offered to take over the >>> maintainership, and I can't think of anyone who's more qualified or >>> better suited. >>> >>> So, please say hi to the new maintainer. > > Hi Jens, > > My main involvement with libata used to be the libahci_platform.c since > I once upon a time created that to have a set of default helpers for > various (mostly ARM) SoC specific AHCI drivers. I've stopped working > on the Allwinner sunxi stuff a while ago, but I still review most of > the libahci_platform.c related patches. I would not mind if you take that > over from me :) I was hoping you'd continue doing that, at least for a short while! Time permitting, of course. > Lately I've mostly been involved in SATA LPM (Link Power Management) > and specifically in enabling some level of that by default as this is > necessary to get recent Intel chips into a high package C-state > (deep powersaving states) and it seems now also to get them to reach > the deepest S0ix levels on all the new-fangled laptops using suspend > to idle instead of a real suspend to S3. > > LPM is tricky because it tends to trigger firmware bugs in both > motherboard firmware as well as disk/SSD firmwares so you will likely > get patches from me in the future to disable this or that device, or > add some motherboard specific quirks. Sounds good, let me know if you need anything in this area. -- Jens Axboe
