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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH alt4 v3] libata resume fixes
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 17:15:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4478C15E.5030500@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4478C08B.60308@garzik.org>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote:
>
>> The ACPI patches have indeed been working here for over a year now,
>> on all kernels up to 2.6.15 --> not needed for 2.6.16.
> 
> Long term they are definitely needed, if only for the case where a drive 
> password has been set in BIOS.  Otherwise when you resume, you won't be 
> able to talk to your disk.  Additionally the preferences (such drive 
> acoustic settings) aren't reprogrammed, but that is of lesser importance.
> 
> On laptops, the ACPI tables sometimes also hold special vendor-specific 
> taskfiles to work around device-specific or drive-firmware-specific 
> problems.

Agreed, 100%.

So why aren't they in yet?  ;)

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-27 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-27 19:58 [PATCH alt4] libata resume fixes Jeff Garzik
2006-05-27 20:10 ` [PATCH alt4 v2] " Jeff Garzik
2006-05-27 20:14   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-27 20:30     ` Mark Lord
     [not found]     ` <4478B611.2030201@rtr.ca>
2006-05-27 20:32       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-27 20:41         ` Mark Lord
2006-05-27 20:56           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-27 21:00             ` Mark Lord
2006-05-27 21:06               ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-27 21:09                 ` Mark Lord
2006-05-27 21:14                   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-27 20:13 ` [PATCH alt4] " Mark Lord
2006-05-27 20:52 ` [PATCH alt4 v3] " Jeff Garzik
2006-05-27 20:56   ` Mark Lord
2006-05-27 21:11     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-27 21:15       ` Mark Lord [this message]
2006-05-27 21:25         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-27 21:12     ` Mark Lord
2006-05-27 21:21       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-29  3:53         ` zhao, forrest
2006-05-29  5:25           ` Jeff Garzik

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