From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: SATA suspend-to-ram patch - merge? Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:28:55 +0100 Message-ID: <20050922142855.GA29672@infradead.org> References: <433104E0.4090308@triplehelix.org> <433221A1.5000600@pobox.com> <20050922061849.GJ7929@suse.de> <4332ABDC.3030106@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:51929 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030368AbVIVO3Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:29:16 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4332ABDC.3030106@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Jens Axboe , Jeff Garzik , Joshua Kwan , Linux Kernel , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:04:28AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > 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. Folks, bitching around on lkml on this won't get you far. Send the patch to linux-scsi again, and explain what's the current stance on the disk synchronize cache and spindown issues.