From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: SATA suspend-to-ram patch - merge?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:24:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050922132406.GH4262@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4332ABDC.3030106@rtr.ca>
On Thu, Sep 22 2005, Mark Lord wrote:
> >>So currently we are in limbo...
> >
> >Which is a shame, since it means that software suspend on sata is
> >basically impossible :)
>
> Except that it actually does work, with Jen's patch.
(Jens's, not Jen's!)
Yes, I'm very aware of that. The above note refers to what is currently
shipping in Linus's tree, and sata suspend definitely does not work
there.
> Rather than sitting around for another six months hoping the problem
> will go away (it won't), perhaps we should just update/merge Jen's
> patch as a sorely needed interim fix.
>
> This might then prod James et al into looking more at the SCSI side of
> things, and some year we might see this get replaced with a better scheme.
>
> This is a real problem, and an immediate solution is needed last spring.
Could not have said it better myself. It's not like the patch is hack
either.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-22 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <433104E0.4090308@triplehelix.org>
2005-09-22 3:14 ` SATA suspend-to-ram patch - merge? Jeff Garzik
2005-09-22 6:18 ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-22 13:04 ` Mark Lord
2005-09-22 13:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2005-09-22 13:24 ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-22 13:24 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2005-09-22 14:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-22 14:17 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-22 13:56 ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-22 14:30 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-22 14:20 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-22 17:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-22 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-22 18:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-22 18:11 ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-22 15:01 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-22 10:36 ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-24 10:18 ` Jeff Garzik
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