From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Cc: jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata: ahci: power off unused ports
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 18:59:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080527225926.GE6843@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080527143202.4bab5bf0@appleyard>
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 02:32:02PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
>
> As far as I know the patch has gone nowhere. I believe that
> Jeff wanted something more flexible than the module parameter that
> I provided to override the BIOS options. I am not working on this,
> I figured he had a pretty firm idea what he wanted so he was better
> equipped to write the patch.
Thanks Kristen,
Can you say which laptops you had tested this on where it saved power?
(Did you test any Thinkpads, in particular?) I'm wondering if it's
worth trying to forward port your patch as a private mod to my kernel;
30 to 40 minutes of extra battery life is nothing to sneeze at!
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-27 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-08 23:10 [PATCH] ata: ahci: power off unused ports Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-05-08 23:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-05-08 23:35 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-05-09 0:14 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-05-09 0:28 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-05-09 15:58 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-05-09 16:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-05-09 16:14 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-05-09 17:14 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-05-09 15:06 ` Mark Lord
2008-05-09 15:28 ` Port control interface (was Re: [PATCH] ata: ahci: power off unused ports) Jeff Garzik
2008-05-27 3:08 ` [PATCH] ata: ahci: power off unused ports Theodore Tso
2008-05-27 21:32 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-05-27 22:59 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-05-27 23:32 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-05-31 8:00 ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-01 19:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-02 7:04 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-02 7:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-02 8:22 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-02 9:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-02 13:54 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-02 16:55 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-06-02 13:03 ` Mark Lord
2008-06-02 16:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-02 17:00 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-06-02 17:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-02 17:47 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-06-02 18:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-02 18:16 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-06-02 18:30 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-06-02 18:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-02 18:49 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-06-02 18:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-02 20:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-06-02 18:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-03 16:49 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-06-02 17:07 ` Greg Freemyer
2008-06-02 16:57 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2008-06-02 17:44 ` Jeff Garzik
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